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Title

Some Modern Approaches to the History of the Crusades

Author(s)

Jonathan S. C. Riley-Smith, University of Cambridge

Document Type

Presentation

Date of this Version

April 2008

Comments

A lecture presented on 1 April 2008 in the Rosenwald Gallery of the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania (total time: 1:13:42).

• Introduction, by Edward M. Peters, University of Pennsylvania (0:00)
• Lecture, by Jonathan S.C. Riley-Smith (2:15)
• Question and answer session (55:50)

Jonathan S. C. Riley-Smith is the most distinguished historian of the Crusades in the Anglophone world. He has published fifteen books and hundreds of scholarly articles on all aspects of Crusades history. Riley-Smith is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus at the University of Cambridge.