Jonathan Riley-Smith

Jonathan Riley -Smith ( * June 27, 1938 ) GCStJ is Professor of Church History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is considered one of the most renowned historians in the field of the Crusades.

Works

  • The first crusade and the idea of crusading, London, 1986, ISBN 0-485-11291-4
  • The first crusaders, 1095-1131, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-521-59005-1
  • The Crusades: wars in the name of God, Freiburg 1999 ( ed.) ISBN 3-451-04755-1
  • What holy wars? Occasions and motives of the Crusades, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8031-2480-8
  • Illustrated History of the Crusades, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-593-36017-9

Awards

  • 2013 Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of Saint John
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