Jonathan Riley-Smith

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1. Jonathan Riley-Smith

   Author of The Crusades: A Short History, The Oxford History of the Crusades, What Were the Crusades?

2. Steven Runciman

   Author of A History of the Crusades, Volume I : The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, The Fall of Constantinople 1453, The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century (Canto)

3. Malcolm Barber

   Author of The Trial of the Templars, The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple, The Two Cities: Medieval Europe, 1050-1320

4. John France

   Author of Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade

5. Georges Duby

   Author of A History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World, The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined

6. Robert Bartlett

   Author of The Making of Europe, England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225

7. Edward Peters

   Author of The First Crusade : the Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials, Inquisition

8. Marc Bloch

   Author of Feudal Society, Volume 1: The Growth of Ties of Dependence, Feudal Society, Volume 2: Social Classes and Political Organization

9. Benedict XVI

   Author of Salt of the Earth: The Church at the End of the Millennium: An Interview With Peter Seewald, In the Beginning...: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall (Resourcement), Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam

10. Norman F. Cantor

    Author of The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, Inventing the Middle Ages

11. Thomas F. Madden

    Author of The New Concise History of the Crusades, Crusades: The Illustrated History, The Crusades: The Essential Readings (Blackwell Essential Readings in History)

12. R. W. Southern

    Author of The Making of the Middle Ages, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Hist of the Church)

13. John Julius Norwich

    Author of Byzantium: The Early Centuries, Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194

14. James Reston Jr.

    Author of Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade, The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D.

15. Peter Robert Lamont Brown

    Author of The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750, The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, 200-1000 AD, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (The Haskell Lectures on History of Religions)

16. Professor George Holmes

    Author of The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe

17. Jean de Joinville

    Author of Chronicles of the Crusades

18. Francesco Gabrieli

    Author of Arab Historians of the Crusades

19. Desmond Seward

    Author of The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453, The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders (Arkana)

20. Philippe Contamine

    Author of War in the Middle Ages