Title
Fighting for the cross : crusading to the Holy Land / Norman Housley.
ISBN
9780300118889 (alk. paper)
0300118880 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 357 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
D157 .H69 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
909.07
Summary
"Many books have been written about the Crusades, but until now none has described in detail what it was like to take part in medieval Europe's most ambitious wars. This book draws on extensive research and on a wealth of surviving contemporary accounts to recreate the full experience of crusading, from the elation of taking up the cross to the difficult adjustments at home when the war was over."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Crusading in the East, 1095-1291
The call to crusade
Signed with the cross
Eastward bound
Crusading warfare
The needs of the flesh
Storming heaven
Saracens
Brave new world
Remembrance of things past.
