Crusading Warfare 1097-1193 2ed (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: New Series, Series Number 3)

This is a revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of the military achievements of the Crusaders in the context of a 'feudal society organized for war'. A new bibliographical introduction and an updated bibliography have been provided by Christopher Marshall, while the original plates section has been replaced by a series of new subjects. In covering the period 1097-1193, this edition also complements Dr Marshall's own Warfare in the Latin East, 1192–1291, also available in a paperback edition. This text is a revised version of R.C. Small's classic account of the strategic and cultural achievements of a society structured and organized to conduct war. This is an important book for several reasons. It deals with a subject that frankly, not many people have a deep knowledge of. It treats warfare as it should amongst the backdrop of contextualizing a society within the continuous warfare that went on for almost a century. This is not popular history but a scholarly analysis. A revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of the military achievements of the Crusaders in the context of a 'feudal society organized for war'. A new bibliographical introduction and an updated bibliography have been provided by Christopher Marshall, while the original plates section has been superseded by new subjects.