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The Crusades were fought by Latin Christians against Muslims, pagans, and even fellow Christians whom they believed were threatening the existence of their Christian faith.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Chronology: 1095-1800 Introduction Crusading Expeditions to the Holy Land, 1095-1291 Expeditions in the Iberian Peninsula The "Crusade" in the North-Eastern Europe Crusades Against Heretics: The Albigensian Crusades and the Hussite Crusades Crusades Against the Ottoman Turks in the Balkans Conclusion: The Impact of Crusading on the History of Europe and Its Neighbors Biographies Primary Documents Glossary Annotated Bibliography Index

About the Author

HELEN NICHOLSON is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cardiff, Wales. She is the author of The Knights Hospitaller (2001), The Knights Templar: A New History (2001), Love, War and the Grail: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval Epic and Romance, 1150-1500 (2001), and a number of books and articles on the Military Orders and on the Crusades in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries. In 1997 she published a translation of an early 13th-century account of the Third Crusade: Chronicle of the Third Crusade: A Translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi, and she edited the proceedings of the second international Clerkenwell conference on the Military Orders: The Military Orders, vol. 2: Welfare and Warfare (1998). She is currently researching the activities and reputation of the Knights Hospitaller in the British Isles in the 14th century.

Reviews

?[N]icholson discusses the many different types of crusades, including not only the expeditions to the Holy Land, but also those against heretics and pagans in Europe; the "reconquest" of Spain from the Muslims; and crusades against the Turks in the Balkans. She also discusses the different schools of thought among historians as to how to define crusades and why medieval Christians went on them....[w]ould be most suitable for students doing advanced-placement history classes. The appended biographies and glossary are well done, but even more useful are the relevant primary documents conveniently included.?-School Library Journal

?[W]ill prove an outstanding survey....A timeline and maps provide excellent overviews and make it easy for all to understand.?-MBR Internet Bookwatch

?Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.?-Choice

"ÝN¨icholson discusses the many different types of crusades, including not only the expeditions to the Holy Land, but also those against heretics and pagans in Europe; the "reconquest" of Spain from the Muslims; and crusades against the Turks in the Balkans. She also discusses the different schools of thought among historians as to how to define crusades and why medieval Christians went on them....Ýw¨ould be most suitable for students doing advanced-placement history classes. The appended biographies and glossary are well done, but even more useful are the relevant primary documents conveniently included."-School Library Journal

"ÝW¨ill prove an outstanding survey....A timeline and maps provide excellent overviews and make it easy for all to understand."-MBR Internet Bookwatch

"[W]ill prove an outstanding survey....A timeline and maps provide excellent overviews and make it easy for all to understand."-MBR Internet Bookwatch

"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students."-Choice

"[N]icholson discusses the many different types of crusades, including not only the expeditions to the Holy Land, but also those against heretics and pagans in Europe; the "reconquest" of Spain from the Muslims; and crusades against the Turks in the Balkans. She also discusses the different schools of thought among historians as to how to define crusades and why medieval Christians went on them....[w]ould be most suitable for students doing advanced-placement history classes. The appended biographies and glossary are well done, but even more useful are the relevant primary documents conveniently included."-School Library Journal