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The Crusades: A Reader, Second Edition Paperback – April 21 2014

by S.J. Allen (Editor), Emilie Amt (Editor)
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    University of Toronto Press
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    April 21 2014
  6. Part of series
    Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
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    English
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Allen and Amt have dusted off the Crusades from the relics shelf of European history and have brought the conflict into a new age of scholarship, making use of a multifaceted, multicultural perspective of great value in our interconnected world where an understanding of cultural context is so vital. -- Comitatus

The book's beauty lies in its documentation of relevant and important primary sources from both Christian as well as Muslim sources. Moreover, after documenting the sources it neither judges nor analyses; rather, at the end of almost each document it encourages readers to engage more with it and poses some important questions, such as why, what, how, and when. -- Journal of Human and Society

This is a stellar collection, and there is nothing to equal it on the market. By bringing together primary sources written by various Christian, Muslim, and Jewish authors, this anthology elegantly conveys the diversity of experiences of the crusades&emdash;those of its participants and those of its victims. The questions for discussion that the authors provide are tailor-made for each source, and make teaching this complicated subject all the easier. This second edition is especially strong in its new coverage of modern perceptions of the Crusades. The editors are to be congratulated. -- Paul M. Cobb, University of Pennsylvania

The Crusades: A Reader is an indispensable teaching resource. As in the previous edition, Allen and Amt present a sampling of crusading and anti-crusading literature and imagery that is well suited to undergraduate readers. The collection devotes attention not just to the external theaters of crusading, but to the internal as well, and strikes an appropriate balance between the promoters and the critics of the Crusades. The second edition's inclusion of excerpts from al-Sulami's The Book of the Jihad is particularly welcome, as is the section on modern perceptions of the Crusades, with thirteen new sources that carry the history and historiography of crusading into the twenty-first century. There is in my opinion no better short collection of crusading sources in English translation. -- David J. Hay, University of Lethbridge

The collection of translated sources in The Crusades: A Reader is one of the most comprehensive yet assembled. It covers the centuries from the late eleventh to the early sixteenth and includes texts illustrating actions in theaters of war that are often ignored, such as Spain, the Baltic region, and the interior of Western Europe. It is to be recommended as a very congenial and informative introduction to a large, complex, and historically important subject. -- Jonathan Riley-Smith, University of Cambridge

About the Author

S.J. Allen is Associate Lecturer in Arts and Humanities at The Open University, UK.


Emilie Amt is the Hildegarde Pilgram Professor of History at Hood College, Maryland. Her books include The Crusades: A Reader (2003) and Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook (2010).

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1442606231
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Toronto Press; 2 edition (April 21 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781442606234
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1442606234
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 700 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.79 x 22.86 cm
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    Emilie Amt is an emeritus professor of history at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. An award-winning writer on black history in western Maryland, she blogs at emilieamt.com, and her newest book is about African Americans at the battle of Antietam. She’s also a well known medieval historian who has published extensively on religious women and on twelfth- and thirteenth-century English government, finance, and war.

    Her interest in history began at the age of fourteen, when she read Josephine Tey's classic murder mystery The Daughter of Time. She earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her doctorate at Oxford University. Around 2010, she grew interested in black history as she researched the enslaved people who had attended her church.

    She lives in Hagerstown, Maryland, where she's active in public history as well as research and writing.

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    THE LISTED TITLE: All the Innocent Blood Shed by Israel IS NOT MY BOOK. IT WAS INCORRECTLY ADDED TO MY AUTHOR PROFILE.

    Dr. S.J. Allen is a medieval historian and Associate Lecture for The Open University (UK). She holds an MA from the University of York, and doctorate (D.Phil.) from Oxford University. Her new book, An Introduction to the Crusades, was published by University of Toronto Press in May, 2017. It supports The Crusades A Reader (Allen & Amt, Second Edition, 2014) and is part of UTP's Companions to Medieval Studies series (series editor: Paul Edward Dutton).

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