The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom

by Jason T. Roche

"A seminal article published by Giles Constable in 1953 focused on the genesis and expansion in scope of the Second Crusade with particular attention to what has become known as the Syrian campaign. His central thesis maintained that by the spring of 1147 the Church viewed and planned the Second Crusade a general Christian offensive against the Baltic pagan Wends and the Muslims of the Iberian Peninsula and the Holy Land. His work remains extremely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503523277
• ISBN13: 9782503523279
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"