Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His previous publications include The Crusades: A Beginner’s Guide (2015), A Hermit’s Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages (2011), The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World (2005), with Caroline Hull, and The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages (2002).

• List of figures, maps and genealogical tables Preface to second editionPreface to first editionChronology of main events Problems in crusading historiography The papacy, the knighthood and the eastern Mediterranean Crusade and settlement,1095–c.1118 Politics and war in theCrusader States,1118–87 The Islamic reaction, 1097–1193 Crusader society Recovery in the East, new challenges in Europe: crusading, 1187–1216 Varieties of crusading from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries Crusading and the Crusader States in the thirteenth century, 1217–74 CRUSADING AND THE HOLY LAND IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

For a fine and reasonably short introduction to the crusading movement, this cannot be bettered. In the second edition of his classic Crusading and the Crusader States, Andrew Jotischky effortlessly weaves together a detailed chronological narrative, along with thematic segments and up-to-date analysis – and, of course, it is all attractively written for a student audience. Highly recommended.Guy Perry, University of Leeds, UK

Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His previous publications include The Crusades: A Beginner’s Guide (2015), A Hermit’s Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages (2011), The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World (2005), with Caroline Hull, and The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages (2002).

• List of figures, maps and genealogical tables Preface to second editionPreface to first editionChronology of main events Problems in crusading historiography The papacy, the knighthood and the eastern Mediterranean Crusade and settlement,1095–c.1118 Politics and war in theCrusader States,1118–87 The Islamic reaction, 1097–1193 Crusader society Recovery in the East, new challenges in Europe: crusading, 1187–1216 Varieties of crusading from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries Crusading and the Crusader States in the thirteenth century, 1217–74 CRUSADING AND THE HOLY LAND IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

For a fine and reasonably short introduction to the crusading movement, this cannot be bettered. In the second edition of his classic Crusading and the Crusader States, Andrew Jotischky effortlessly weaves together a detailed chronological narrative, along with thematic segments and up-to-date analysis – and, of course, it is all attractively written for a student audience. Highly recommended.Guy Perry, University of Leeds, UK

Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His previous publications include The Crusades: A Beginner’s Guide (2015), A Hermit’s Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages (2011), The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World (2005), with Caroline Hull, and The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages (2002).

• List of figures, maps and genealogical tables Preface to second editionPreface to first editionChronology of main events Problems in crusading historiography The papacy, the knighthood and the eastern Mediterranean Crusade and settlement,1095–c.1118 Politics and war in theCrusader States,1118–87 The Islamic reaction, 1097–1193 Crusader society Recovery in the East, new challenges in Europe: crusading, 1187–1216 Varieties of crusading from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries Crusading and the Crusader States in the thirteenth century, 1217–74 CRUSADING AND THE HOLY LAND IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

For a fine and reasonably short introduction to the crusading movement, this cannot be bettered. In the second edition of his classic Crusading and the Crusader States, Andrew Jotischky effortlessly weaves together a detailed chronological narrative, along with thematic segments and up-to-date analysis – and, of course, it is all attractively written for a student audience. Highly recommended.Guy Perry, University of Leeds, UK