Antony Leopold
Ashgate
Hardback
242
2000
Beginning with the fall of Acre in 1291 and the final expulsion of the Crusaders from Palestine there emerged a flow of proposals and treatises on how the Holy Land could be reconquered. Their authors ranged from monarchs to churchmen and they dealt with all aspects of crusading together they offer an insight into opinion on the crusades from a cross-section of literate Christian society. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive study of this literature which forms one of the most striking features of Christendom's response to the loss of the Holy Land.
Ashgate
Hardback
242
2000
Beginning with the fall of Acre in 1291 and the final expulsion of the Crusaders from Palestine there emerged a flow of proposals and treatises on how the Holy Land could be reconquered. Their authors ranged from monarchs to churchmen and they dealt with all aspects of crusading together they offer an insight into opinion on the crusades from a cross-section of literate Christian society. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive study of this literature which forms one of the most striking features of Christendom's response to the loss of the Holy Land.