The Later Crusades, 1274-1580: From Lyons to Alcazar - Tapa dura

The expulsion of the Christians from the Holy Land in 1291 was far from being the end of the crusading movement. Crusades continued for three centuries over a vast area stretching from Morocco to Russia and played an important role in the politics and society of late medieval Europe. Norman Housley's survey focuses in depth on the later crusades. He explores developments in all the areas touched by crusading activity, and examines the exolution of the international Military Orders and the Christian "frontier states" associated with crusading, especially Greece and Cyprus. Dr Housley illuminates the range and energy of the crusading movement in the late Middle Ages. He reveals the formidable problems which, as the period progresses, increasingly doomed crusades to failure, and shows how practical crusading was in a condition of decay even before the Reformation destroyed the religious framework in which it had once flourished.