This allowed for a different commentary to flourish on attitudes towards bloodshed and violence, political and religious cultures and objectives in the Crusades era. Asbridge’s book presents a ...

Fulton ends the book with a chapter reviewing overall trends in the evolution of fortification design and siege techniques during the period, and a conclusion in which he examines the final siege of ...

(p. 224) Thirty well-chosen photographs illustrate the book. There are also six maps that show every named location mentioned in the text, although the maps are a bit fuzzy (a common production ...