The Medieval Crusade. Edited by Susan J. Rudyard. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell & Brewer, 2004. Pp. ix, 177. $70.00.)
This book is a collection of articles presenting the newest interpretations and corrections to Crusading historiography. Knowledge of the Crusades is necessary, as this book is not a general history.
Before its armies ever left Europe, the First Crusade began with anti-Jewish pogroms, mainly in the Rhineland, launching a sad history of European ...