Books in the The Experience of Crusading 2 Volume Hardback Set series

This collection of seventeen further essays is published with its companion volume Western Approaches, edited by Marcus Bull and Norman Housley, to celebrate the 65th birthday of Jonathan Riley-Smith. This volume Defining the Crusader Kingdom focuses on the history of the Latin East and its place in the context of the Mediterranean trade and near eastern political developments.

The study of the crusades is one of the most thriving areas of medieval history. This collection of seventeen essays reflects the best of contemporary scholarship, and is the first of two volumes published to celebrate the 65th birthday of Jonathan Riley-Smith, the leading British historian of the crusades.