Books by Robert Bartlett
“What this book does—and, in my view, much better than any of its rivals—is explain the Latin Western environment from which crusading emerged. It describes how the heartlands of Europe produced a warrior aristocracy: figures who can be described as ‘of slender means but with a big appetite.’” Read more...
The best books on The Crusades
Guy Perry, Historian
Interviews where books by Robert Bartlett were recommended
-
1
God’s War
by Christopher Tyerman -
2
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350
by Robert Bartlett -
3
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
by Carole Hillenbrand -
4
Chronicles of the Crusades
by Geoffroy de Villehardouin and Jean de Joinville, edited by Caroline Smith -
5
Seven Myths of the Crusades
edited by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt
The best books on The Crusades, recommended by Guy Perry
The best books on The Crusades, recommended by Guy Perry
Once seen as a great romantic adventure, the Crusades tend to be viewed now as an early venture in Western imperialism. But, as the Oxford historian Guy Perry explains, there is nothing so simple about them. He chooses five books that get to the complex truth of the Crusades as historical phenomena.
