Marxism and Medieval History

Essays on the Crusades and Medieval Society

These are essays on medieval history, and the crusades especially, written from what can broadly be considered a Marxist approach. The contents include:

• Marxism, Idealism and the Crusades; Deep History
• Women and the First Crusade; Eleanor of Aquitaine and the women of the Second Crusade
• The Trial by Fire of Peter Bartholomew
• Iuvenes and the First Crusade (1096–99): Knights in Search of Glory?
• William of Tyre, Livy, and the Vocabulary of 'Class'
• God’s Bounty, Pauperes, and the Crusades of 1096 and 1147
• Social Unrest and the Failure of Conrad III’s March Through Anatolia, 1147
• Drought and Plague in Adso of Montier-en-Der’s Miracles of St Mansuy
• The afterlife of Bishop Adhémar of Le Puy
• Medieval History Book Reviews
• The Norman Invasion of Ireland

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