The Crusades, c.1071-c.1291Cambridge University Press
Jean Richard
ISBN: 0521623693
price: $69.95 hardcover
This book presents a concise, general history of the
crusades--whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of
the "holy places" of the Middle East--from the first
calls to arms in the later eleventh century to the fall of the
last crusader strongholds in Syria and Palestine in 1291. Written
by one of the world's great crusader historians, this unique work
is the distillation of over forty years' research and
contemplation, and the ideal introductory textbook for all
students of the crusades.
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