Fideles Crucis: The Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274-1314

By Sylvia Schein

Schein challenges the view that the fall of Acre in 1291 was a watershed dividing the "classical age" of the crusade from the late Middle Ages, when the ideal had become sterile, the obsessive dream of a handful of individuals. She shows instead that the desire to recover the Holy Land remained powerful and pervasive, and was an important consideration in the policy-making of European rulers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198221657
• ISBN13: 9780198221654
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.7"