Epochs of Modern History: The Crusades.

COX, Sir George W.

Item Number: 138545

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887.

Finely bound example of Cox’s authoritative work on The Crusades. 12mo, bound in full calf for Chatham House Grammar School, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, folding map of the Era of The Crusades. In very good condition. Period ownership names.

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were intended to recover Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Islamic rule. Beginning with the First Crusade, which resulted in the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, dozens of Crusades were fought, providing a focal point of European history for centuries.