Description: This fascinating survey includes illustrations, maps, timelines, further reading guides, and a detailed list of rulers across Europe, and for the first time, chronologically examines the medieval crusades and their impact on European expansion.
Review Quotes:
"A study that is both wide ranging and refreshingly insightful, which pulls together historical episodes that are often accorded insufficient attention and traces the fortunes of a developing political matrix in which piety and greed, loyalty and aggression, self-interest and faith, went hand in hand." - Professor Peter Edbury, Cardiff University