An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades.

"Pulls off the enviable feat of summing up seven centuries of religious warfare in a crisp 309 pages of text."--Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World In t

This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.

Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade through the lens o