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The Right to Rule - Thirteen Years, Five Prime Ministers and the Implosion of the Tories: Ben Riley-Smith The Right to Rule - Thirteen Years, Five Prime Ministers and the Implosion of the Tories
Ben Riley-Smith
R775 R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Save R145 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The explosive full story of the past dozen years of Tory rule, from coalition to self-destruction. Over the last decade, the British people have seen five different Conservative Prime Ministers, with five different missions and five messages to the nation. From the ashes of a financial crisis, to a break from the EU, to a global pandemic, governments - and ideologies - have changed, but Tory power has clung on. Merciless rebellion and the swift ousting of leaders have enabled this, and yet the same ruthlessnessv may ultimately bring about their downfall. Witty, hair-raising and brilliantly sourced, The Right to Rule links as never before stories of betrayal in Cameron's Coalition, the rifts behind the Referendum, the travails of May, the chaos of the pandemic, the sagas of Johnson, the Truss implosion and the Sunak patch-job. Through his unique access and unmissable inside stories, acclaimed Westminster journalist Ben Riley-Smith's explosive account is essential for anyone wondering how the Tories kept changing, kept revolting - and kept winning. This is the entertaining and dramatic account of our times, for anyone wondering how Britain got into this state.

Crusades - Volume 11 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 11 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,866 Discovery Miles 38 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.

Crusades - Volume 15 (Hardcover): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Nikolaos G. Chrissis Crusades - Volume 15 (Hardcover)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Nikolaos G. Chrissis
R4,001 Discovery Miles 40 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin.

Crusaders and Settlers in the Latin East (Paperback): Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusaders and Settlers in the Latin East (Paperback)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
R1,432 Discovery Miles 14 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The studies here reflect Jonathan Riley-Smith's work as a historian, which began with research on the history of the military orders, the specific focus of the third section here. Out of this grew the concerns covered in the previous sections: an interest in the political and constitutional history of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the relations of the western settlers with the indigenous population of Palestine and Syria; the theory of crusading, involving research on theology and canon law, and the rAle of the popes as preachers, and at the same time detailed consideration of the responses of lay men and women to the ideas that were being presented to them. The two final papers explore some of the implications of crusading ideology and mythology in the modern world.

Crusades - Volume 14 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 14 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R4,014 Discovery Miles 40 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.

Crusades - Volume 13 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 13 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,863 Discovery Miles 38 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.

Crusades - Volume 12 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 12 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,861 Discovery Miles 38 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.

Crusades - Volume 10 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 10 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,835 Discovery Miles 38 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.

Crusades - Volume 9 (Hardcover, New ed.): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 9 (Hardcover, New ed.)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,835 Discovery Miles 38 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.

Crusades - Volume 8 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 8 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,984 Discovery Miles 39 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Volume 8 begins with Adrian J. Boas and Aren M. Maeir on the Frankish Castle of Blanche Garde and the Medieval and Modern Village of Tell es-Safi in the light of recent discoveries.

Crusades - Volume 7 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 7 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,835 Discovery Miles 38 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. In this issue, Jonathan Riley-Smith studies the death and burial of Latin Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem and Acre and Andrew Jotischky studies the Christians of Jerusalem, the Holy Sepulchre and the origins of the First Crusade.

Crusades - Volume 5 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 5 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,835 Discovery Miles 38 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Ashgate publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Because the greatest need appears to be for more historical sources - narrative, homiletic and documentary - to be made available in trustworthy editions, editorial preference is given here to the publication of texts in both European and oriental languages, although interpretative material is welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. Crusades 5 includes articles by John France, Emily Savage-Smith, Charles Burnett and Edward Peters.

Crusades - Volume 4 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 4 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,536 Discovery Miles 35 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Issue 4 of Crusades kicks off with Graham Loud's reflections on the failure of the Second Crusade and also features Susan Edgington's administrative regulations for the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem dating from the 1180s.

Crusades - Volume 3 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 3 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,536 Discovery Miles 35 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. The third issue of the Crusades features articles from Denys Pringle on Crusader inscriptions, Bejamin Z. Kadar on the massacre of 15 July 1099 and Peter Frankopan on co-operation between Constantinople and Rome before the First Crusade.

Crusades - Volume 2 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 2 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,541 Discovery Miles 35 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The subject of the crusades is enormous, covering 700 years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and comprising scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Although in almost every one of the many topics into which the subject is divided there is lively debate and development, there has not been a journal dedicated to the history of the crusades since the Revue de l'Orient latin, which flourished a century ago. the Latin East, which, together with Ashgate, has launched this journal. Because the greatest need appears to be for more historical sources - narrative, homiletic and documentary - to be made available in trustworthy editions, editorial preference will be given to the publication of texts in both European and oriental languages, although interpretative material will also be welcomed. Crusades also incorporates the Society's bulletin.

Crusades - Volume 1 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 1 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,536 Discovery Miles 35 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. This first edition of the journal includes contributions from Jonathan Riley-Smith refecting on the number of knights who participated in the First Crusade and the number of casualties and Peter W. Edbury on Fiefs and Vassals in the Kingdom of Jerusalem: from the Twelfth Century to the Thirteenth.

The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070-1309 (Hardcover): J. Riley-Smith The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070-1309 (Hardcover)
J. Riley-Smith
R3,765 Discovery Miles 37 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states. It was also a leading player in the settlements established in the Levant in the wake of the crusades. It survives today. In this source-based and up-to-date account of its activities and internal history in the first two centuries of its existence, attention is particularly paid to the lives of the brothers and sisters who made up its membership and were professed religious. Themes in the book relate to the tension that always existed between the Hospital's roles as both a hospitaller and a military order and its performance as an institution that was at the same time a religious order and a great international corporation.

The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070-1309 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): J. Riley-Smith The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070-1309 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
J. Riley-Smith
R3,738 Discovery Miles 37 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states. It was also a leading player in the settlements established in the Levant in the wake of the crusades. It survives today. In this source-based and up-to-date account of its activities and internal history in the first two centuries of its existence, attention is particularly paid to the lives of the brothers and sisters who made up its membership and were professed religious. Themes in the book relate to the tension that always existed between the Hospital's roles as both a hospitaller and a military order and its performance as an institution that was at the same time a religious order and a great international corporation.

What Were the Crusades? (Paperback, 1977 ed.): Jonathan Riley-Smith What Were the Crusades? (Paperback, 1977 ed.)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
R1,489 Discovery Miles 14 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book deals with the legitimising authority of the papacy, the nature of the crusade vow and of the privilege accorded to crusaders, the developments of the indulgence, and the role of Military Orders.

Feudal Nobility and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1174-1277 (Hardcover, 1974 ed.): J. Riley-Smith Feudal Nobility and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1174-1277 (Hardcover, 1974 ed.)
J. Riley-Smith
R1,592 Discovery Miles 15 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a study of the feudal nobles in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem; their status in Palestinian society, their lordships and their political ideas; and the development of these ideas as expressed in constitutional conflicts with kings and regents from 1174 to 1277.

Knights of St.John in Jerusalem and Cyprus (Paperback, 1967 ed.): J. Riley-Smith Knights of St.John in Jerusalem and Cyprus (Paperback, 1967 ed.)
J. Riley-Smith
R1,648 Discovery Miles 16 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written by a brilliant scholar, this book is the first volume of a major work, which makes full use of the very rich documentary material still surviving and relates it to the evidence of the chronicles. Oriental sources are not disregarded: use is made of Arabic material and the latest archaeological discoveries in the Near East. The author has concentrated upon the Order as an institution in the crusader states and as a powerful international religious corporation. He considers its growth to power, its participation in the polititcs of the Latin settlement in the East, its organisation, its position as an exempt Order of the Church, its properties and its methods of administration as a landlord in feudal states. For the first time, the Order of St John is treated in a way that is neither hostile nor romantically partisan: and the author's conclusions differ from those of other historians. In his description of the Hospitallers' policies, the place they occupied in the government of Latin Syria, their privileges and the way they lived, he shows how it was thay they - individuals as well as the corporate body - played such a significant part in the history of the Christian East in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This book is important to all those interested in the Knights of St John, the international Orders of mediaeval Christendom or the extra-ordinary states established by western Europeans on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.

The Cracked Bell - America and the Afflictions of Liberty (Hardcover): Tristram Riley-Smith The Cracked Bell - America and the Afflictions of Liberty (Hardcover)
Tristram Riley-Smith
R695 R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Save R131 (19%) Out of stock

The twin concepts of liberty and the free market have been instrumental in shaping American identity. Here, author Tristram Riley-Smith delves into how the perverting of these concepts has led to today's economic crisis and identity crisis for America.
Including President Obama's election and initial stimulus package, Riley-Smith takes us on a whirlwind examination of America. For three years, he served in the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. and traveled through-out the country and this outsider's perspective offers an in-depth look at the state of American culture after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, toxic debts, and the credit crunch. With lively, insightful commentary, careful research, and illuminating personal anecdotes, Riley-Smith uses images like the cracked liberty bell to explain just where things went wrong, and how we can make them right. He touches upon big issues and examines America's consumer culture, using recognizable icons like Martha Stewart, Giorgio Armani, artist Barbara Kruger, and Wal-Mart.
"The Cracked Bell" is a timely, accessible exploration of the current finan-cial crisis and a hard look at the America of the twenty-first century. It's a delightful, thoughtful, and necessary book that takes the reader headlong into the philosophies, icons, and institutions responsible for America's troubles and what can be done about them.

Crusades - Volume 6 (Hardcover, New Ed): Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith Crusades - Volume 6 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith
R3,995 Discovery Miles 39 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Peter W. Edbury again features in an issue of Crusades, this time with his piece on The French translation of William of Tyre's Historia: the manuscript tradition.

The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Paperback): Jonathan Riley-Smith The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Paperback)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
R602 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R86 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars were waged against Muslims and other enemies of the Church, enlisting generations of laymen and laywomen to fight for the sake of Christendom.

Crusading features prominently in today's religio-political hostilities, yet the perceptions of these wars held by Arab nationalists, pan-Islamists, and many in the West have been deeply distorted by the language and imagery of nineteenth-century European imperialism. With this book, Jonathan Riley-Smith returns to the actual story of the Crusades, explaining why and where they were fought and how deeply their narratives and symbolism became embedded in popular Catholic thought and devotional life.

From this history, Riley-Smith traces the legacy of the Crusades into modern times, specifically within the attitudes of European imperialists and colonialists and within the beliefs of twentieth-century Muslims. Europeans fashioned an interpretation of the Crusades from the writings of Walter Scott and a French contemporary, Joseph-Fran?ois Michaud. Scott portrayed Islamic societies as forward-thinking, while casting Christian crusaders as culturally backward and often morally corrupt. Michaud, in contrast, glorified crusading, and his followers used its imagery to illuminate imperial adventures.

These depictions have had a profound influence on contemporary Western opinion, as well as on Muslim attitudes toward their past and present. Whether regarded as a valid expression of Christianity's divine enterprise or condemned as a weapon of empire, crusading has been a powerful rhetorical tool for centuries. In order to understand the preoccupations of Islamist jihadis and the character of Western discourse on the Middle East, Riley-Smith argues, we must understand how images of crusading were formed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Hardcover): Jonathan Riley-Smith The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Hardcover)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
R1,677 Discovery Miles 16 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars were waged against Muslims and other enemies of the Church, enlisting generations of laymen and laywomen to fight for the sake of Christendom.

Crusading features prominently in today's religio-political hostilities, yet the perceptions of these wars held by Arab nationalists, pan-Islamists, and many in the West have been deeply distorted by the language and imagery of nineteenth-century European imperialism. With this book, Jonathan Riley-Smith returns to the actual story of the Crusades, explaining why and where they were fought and how deeply their narratives and symbolism became embedded in popular Catholic thought and devotional life.

From this history, Riley-Smith traces the legacy of the Crusades into modern times, specifically within the attitudes of European imperialists and colonialists and within the beliefs of twentieth-century Muslims. Europeans fashioned an interpretation of the Crusades from the writings of Walter Scott and a French contemporary, Joseph-FranAois Michaud. Scott portrayed Islamic societies as forward-thinking, while casting Christian crusaders as culturally backward and often morally corrupt. Michaud, in contrast, glorified crusading, and his followers used its imagery to illuminate imperial adventures.

These depictions have had a profound influence on contemporary Western opinion, as well as on Muslim attitudes toward their past and present. Whetherregarded as a valid expression of Christianity's divine enterprise or condemned as a weapon of empire, crusading has been a powerful rhetorical tool for centuries. In order to understand the preoccupations of Islamist jihadis and the character of Western discourse on the Middle East, Riley-Smith argues, we must understand how images of crusading were formed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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