An Illustrated History of the Later Crusades

This expertly researched and vividly illustrated book details the fascinating crusades that were fought between 1200 and 1588. These campaigns began with the attempts to regain the city of Jerusalem, held by the Christians for two generations but lost to Saladin in 1187. Conflict soon spread from Palestine to Egypt, Spain and Italy, and then beyond, as the Pope used his call to arms to invoke campaigns against European pagans and Christian heretics. Author, Charles Phillips, succeeds in explaining this complex period of history, and examines how the later crusades impacted on the religious, social and political aspects of life in that time and into the future.  The book is sumptuously illustrated with 150 fine-art paintings.