The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades 1st Edition

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"Fascinating...a comprehensive history of the wars."--History Today

"In 1095, Pope Urban II granted absolutions to whomever would reclaim the Holy Land for Christendom. With that assurance began two centuries of Crusades, and the story...is well treated in this interpretation of the movement to take up the cross."--Booklist

"In a series of finely crafted and admirably succinct essays, the contributors unravel a number of important medieval political and religious themes. This comprehensive approach adds a great deal to the book's interest and presents some of the best insights of modern Crusading
scholarship....Excellent."--Tablet

"The great merit of Professor Riley-Smith's book is to follow the story down to the present day."--Church Times

"In 1095 Pope Urban II granted absolutions to whomever would reclaim the Holy Land for Christendom. With that assurance began two centuries of Crusades, and the story, in contemporary chronicles, artwork, and castellated ruins, is well treated in this interpretation of the movement to take up the
cross."--Booklist

About the Author

Jonathan Riley-Smith is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge and is one of the world's leading authorities on the Crusades. His previous publications include The Atlas of the Crusades and The Crusades: A Short History.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (May 24, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 470 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192854283
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192854285
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.32 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches

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Charles Poncet

Very useful and pleasant book

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2003

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« The Oxford History of� » could suggest some grey bearded professors laboriously writing history nobody but them would understand, but far from it, Jonathan Riley-Smith has managed to edit the erudite contributions to this book into a pleasant and interesting format. Some pages, very few actually, are a little heavy going but most chapters are fascinating. They assume a reasonably smart reader � nobody buys a history of the Crusades if he or she is exclusively into hard rock or soccer � but for the average person with an interest in history and a probably bad recollection of the Crusades as they were taught to teenagers some decades ago, this a perfect book. It requires no more than a general idea of the who�s who at the time and even that is made very clear chapter after chapter. I particularly enjoyed the sections describing the Crusades from the point of view of the people who were at the receiving end. Yet the book is balanced and does not fall into the stereotype of picturing the crusaders as greedy bad guys, turned loose on the local populace by manipulative popes and clerics promising them that past and future sins would be forgiven, although there was quite a bit of that. The chapters on the military orders are great and the final chapter describes the later perception of the Crusades throughout history with plenty of surprises: who knows that Voltaire was scathingly contemptuous of the crusaders? Think of it, though, it fits the great man�s view of the world neatly. The illustrations are very good and abundant. Anyone with an interest in the Crusades should read this book.

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Mr. Flint

A beautiful, scholarly reference work yet which needs a graphic ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2018

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A beautiful, scholarly reference work yet which needs a graphic timeline of players and events of the might crusading era to help the reader navigate the history. I read it in tandem with the classic, 1950s three volume British history.

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Larry N. Stout

Useful information, indifferently collated

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2013

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I have an older edition, so I cannot attest to the virtues of later, revised editions. The chapters in my copy are not well integrated. Some are exasperatingly pedantic, some a scarcely digestible chronicle. I was taken aback by one author's assertion that the Crusader retinue grew millet "and maize" in twelfth-century Palestine (a good trick indeed, seeing that it would be some 400 years before Columbus rediscovered the Americas, where maize was endemic). Nevertheless, much of interest in this book. The chapter on Islam and the Crusades, by Robert Irwin, is particularly good, as is the chapter on the later Latin East, by Peter Edbury.

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Howard B. Holliday

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2017

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Lots of information that has laid dormant but brings it all up to date. Very informative. Thanks.

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2015

nise

Kindle version is virtually unreadable

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2015

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The Kindle edition is virtually unreadable. The font is small and indistinct, even when viewed in landscape and expanded. In addition, parts of many pages are obscured by white squares and rectangles which make those parts of the text invisible. I struggled through 70 pages or so and then gave up.

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Seung Lee

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2016

Insightful!

The Iceberg below the Waterline

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2011

This is not a narrative history, but a collection of essays about aspects of the crusades.
In many stories, the reader only sees the top 10% of the iceberg. The other 90% remains beneath the surface. Similarly, many histories about the Crusades only present the popular narrative. These essays represent (a portion of) the other 90%.

For a person just beginning, this book is most likely not for you. Asbridge or Runciman would be better starting points. It would be like a Tolkien reader starting in the Appendices, the Unfinished Tales, and Histories of Middle Earth before actually reading the trilogy itself. As long as the prospective reader understands what this book is about, they will be happy with it.

Those doing in-depth studies about who participated, why, and how - the financing, the motivations, the social consequences on the families and local and regional economies (both on the home front and front lines), the impact on social classes, how they transformed Europe and the ME, the military orders - would do well to look here. There are discussions about how the crusades have been reflected over time by historians, literature, art, and architecture.

While each essay has a clearly distinct topic written by a distinct author, the essays are cohesive and show an awareness of each other, perhaps due to excellent editing by Riley-Smith. Some essays are more interesting than others, but I believe each is equally important to a more complete understanding of the crusades.

The paper quality is good, the illustrations superb, and I found no typos or odd grammar throughout the text.

One thing I found particularly interesting was the illustration of Richard the Lionheart's effigy. Just as Yosemite gives set designers THE image of paradise and Sedona and Monument Valley are THE images of the Wild West, that effigy is THE stereotypical image of a vibrant medieval king from Errol Flynn movies to Shrek.

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Caveat emptor!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2017

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The text of this book is identical to that of the (non-illustrated) Oxford History of the Crusades (so don't but both!). The text in question is excellent, written by leading scholars, and embodying the latest research. Since, however, this volume is presumably aimed at readers with an interest in the illustrations,it is downright idiotic to give next to no details of what the illustrations are of. There is a list of acknowledgements at the back of the book; but this only acknowledges the copyright-holders of the photographs. Most of the photographed buildings are identified by their captions, but none of the sculptures, reliefs, or manuscript illustrations.

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Great Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2015

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This is a detailed account of the crusades, and is a great read. I would have liked to hear more about some details, but this is still definitely worth buying. Not really for academical study, as there is very little on the actual events of the crusades.

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Very informing, insightful history book that I didn't know/read of at Secondary School/FE College!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2020

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I liked that the skin tone images of the Crusaders were very apt considering the geographical region that the Crusaders originally came from/resided in.

Henry Thompson

Kindle version a very poor image pdf

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2014

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As a Kindle book this is a very poor image pdf type and very difficult to read. I did not make it past the introduction, buy the paper copy!

Shandy

The book was not assembled correctly. The first 228 ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2014

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The book was not assembled correctly. The first 228 pages are upside down and back to front. Only the pages beyond 228 are correctly assembled. Very frustrating.

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