The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades

A beautifully illustrated and accessible account of the medieval crusades, which covers areas such as art, literature and legacy that are not found in other introductions to the topic. It written by a team of fifteen experts in the field and is full of surprising insights from the latest research.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades brings together an outstanding group of scholars to discuss the very latest ideas about crusades, revealing them, through illustration and text, as complex phenomena which both reflected and affected all aspects of the lives of medieval people, East and West.

This impressively wide-ranging and in-depth collection of studies provides an accessible and absorbing introduction to the medieval crusades and many insights into recent developments in scholarship.

Jonathan Harris completed his PhD in 1993 and subsequently taught at University College London, Goldsmiths' College London and King's College London before taking up at post in the History Department at Royal Holloway. His first novel, Theosis, was published in 2023.