دانلود کتاب The Crusades (c.1071-1291)

The aim of this book is to provide for the student and general reader a concise history of the crusades - whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of the ‘holy places’ of the Middle East - from the first calls to arms in the late eleventh century to the fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and Palestine in 1291.
Professor Richard considers the consequences of the crusades, such as the establishment of the Latin east, and its organisation into a group of feudal states, as well as crusading contacts with the Muslim world, eastern Christians, Byzantines and Mongols. Also considered are the organisation of expeditions, the financing of such expeditionary forces, and the organisation of operations and supply. Jean Richard is the doyen of crusader historians and this work, the distillation of over forty years* research and contemplation, is the only one of its kind in English.
jean richard is Emeritus Professor at the University of Dijon and a member of the Institut de France. He is the author of many classic books on the period of the crusades, including Saint Louis (published under the title Saint Louis: Crusader King of France, Cambridge, 1992).