This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site. This is not a comprehensive list of all books by this author.

1. 1. The Crusades

   A Very Short Introduction

   

   A concise survey of the medieval holy wars that traces their origins in eleventh‑century reform and papal authority, the campaigns from the Levant to Iberia and the Baltic, and the shifting motives of participants—piety, penance, power, and profit. It explains how expeditions were organized and financed, examines encounters among Christians, Muslims, and Jews, and explores the movement’s cultural footprint in law, art, and memory. The account challenges popular myths, situates violence within medieval mentalities, and assesses both the evolving definitions of crusading and its long afterlives in politics and historical debate.

   Purchase from Bookshop.org

2. 2. Chronicles Of The First Crusade

   

   A compilation of contemporary narratives that follows the outbreak and course of the First Crusade—from the preaching and mass mobilization of 1096, through the arduous marches and key sieges such as Antioch and Jerusalem, to the capture of the Holy City in 1099—this volume brings together clerical and lay eyewitness accounts to convey both the religious fervor and the political ambitions that drove the campaign. It does not shy away from the violence, massacres, and human cost, and repeatedly shows how chroniclers shaped the crusade’s meaning for medieval audiences. Interwoven commentary places these testimonies in their broader social and diplomatic context, highlighting the immediate consequences for East–West relations and the long-term impact on medieval Christendom.

   Purchase from Bookshop.org