A History of the Crusades, in Three Volumes: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem; The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187; The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades

Complete in three volumes. 316; 428; 448 pp. Volume I deals completely with the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Volume II describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin, and in the final volume, Runciman examines the revival of the Frankish kingdom from the time of the Third Crusade until its collapse a century later. The interwoven themes of the book include: Christiandom, the replacement of the cultured Ayubites by the less sympathetic Mameluks as leader of the Moslem world, and the coming of the Mongols. Runciman includes a chapter on architecture and the arts, and an epilogue on the last manifestations of the Crusading spirit. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman CH (7 July 1903 – 1 November 2000) —known as Steven Runciman — was a British historian known for his work on the Middle Ages. Arguably, his best known work is his three volume A History of the Crusades (1951-54)."