Crusader Warfare Volume I: Byzantium, Western Europe and the Battle for the Holy Land

This book presents as many aspects as possible of warfare during the period of the crusades within all the cultures most directly involved. To a large extent the current interest in the Crusades reflects the perceived threat of a so-called ""clash of civilisations"". While warnings of such a supposed clash in our own times are based upon a misunderstanding of the natures of both ""Western"" and ""Islamic"" civilisations, some commentators have looked to the medieval Crusades as an earlier...