Edited, with an Introduction and Epilogue, by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt.
Hackett Publishing, 2015
After
languishing for long years in a post-Enlightenment intellectual backwater of
fabrication, speculation, and distortion, the historical Crusades of the High
Middle Ages began to attract serious scholarly attention in the nineteenth
century. Continuing into the twentieth, these early efforts to gain a fresh
understanding effectively culminated with Sir Steven Runciman’s A History of the Crusades, first
published 1951-54, in three volumes. For four decades following, A History of the Crusades served as the
standard Crusades reference for students, professors, and the reading public.
