Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century

Download or read book Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century written by Giles Constable and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together revised and up-dated versions of Giles Constable's classic essays on crusading in the 12th century, along with two major new studies on the cross of the crusaders and the Fourth Crusade, and two excursuses on the terminology of crusading and the numbering of the crusades. Together they show the range and depth of the crusading movement at that time and its influence on the broader history of the period.