Contesting the Crusades.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: Barber, Malcolm | Copyright information

Contesting the Crusades. By Norman Housley. (Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. xiii, 198. $72.95.)

In the last generation, the study of the crusades has become the most popular topic in the field of the history of medieval Europe. Excellent resources are available both in primary materials and in secondary literature. However, students are seldom strong on historiography, and the subject is therefore an ideal vehicle for conveying the means by which the hi...

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