Analysis of Jonathan Riley-Smith's The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their own preconceptions than has Jonathan Riley-Smith''s revisionist account of the motives of the first crusaders.
Riley-Smith''s thesis – based on extensive original research and firmly rooted in his refusal to uncritically accept the evidence or reasoning...
Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their own preconceptions than has Jonathan Riley-Smith''s revisionist account of the motives of the first crusaders.
Riley-Smith''s thesis – based on extensive original research and firmly rooted in his refusal to uncritically accept the evidence or reasoning...
