A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES by Steven Runciman ( 9780521347716 )

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Title:

A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES

Volume:

v. 2

By:

Steven Runciman

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£17.99
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ISBN 10:

0521347718

ISBN 13:

9780521347716

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

3 December, 1987

Pages:

538

Description:

Sir Steven Runciman's three volume "A History of the Crusades", one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. This volume describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin.

Synopsis:

Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. This volume describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin. As Runciman says in his preface, 'The politics of the Moslem world in the early twelfth-century defy straightforward analysis, but they must be understood if we are to understand the establishment of the Crusader states and the later causes of the recovery of Islam ...The main theme in this volume is warfare ...I have followed the example of the old chroniclers, who knew their business; for war was the background to life in Outremer and the hazards of the battlefield often decided its destiny.'

Illustrations:

plates, maps, bibliography, index

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Non-returnable

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