Crusading and the Crusader States follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions, offers insights into their continuing failure, and charts the development of new attitudes towards Islam and its followers. This new edition takes...

"The Perfection of Solitude: Hermits and Monks in the Crusader States" von Andrew Jotischky untersucht das religiöse Leben und die spirituellen Praktiken von Eremiten und Mönchen während der Zeit der Kreuzfahrerstaaten im Mittelalter....

A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people...