Crusader criminals : the knights who went rogue in the Holy Land / Steve Tibble.
| Author/creator | Tibble, Steven author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | x, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps, color facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Knights who went rogue in the Holy Land |
| Contents | The Crusader crime wave. The anthropology of crusader criminality -- Crime and crusading -- The demographic crime wave -- Crime and punishment. Crusader crime : prevalence, poverty and productivity -- Frontier justice -- Deus vult : trial by combat -- Women and justice -- Police and thieves -- Criminal competitors : Muslim neighbours -- Vice and victims. Gamblers -- Drinking, bars and bar brawls -- Gangsters - and prisoners of war -- Murderers. A surfeit of blood? -- Murder in the cathedral -- Murderous monks -- Murder and power -- Outlaws. Ploughshares into swords -- Stand and deliver : pilgrims and travellers -- Brigands and bandits -- Bedouin bandits -- The ghost-lordships -- Pirates. Outlaws of the sea -- The pirate saint -- Crusader pirates -- Muslim corsairs -- Vikings on crusade -- The pirate prince and the first sea lords. |
| Abstract | "A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land. The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval warzone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores the criminal underbelly of the crusades. From gangsters and bandits to muggers and pirates, Tibble presents extraordinary evidence of an illicit underworld. He shows how the real problem in the region stemmed not from religion, but young men. Dislocated, disinhibited and present in disturbingly large numbers, they were the propellent that stoked two centuries of unceasing warfare and shocking levels of criminality. Crusader Criminals charts the downward spiral of desensitisation that grew out of the horrors of incessant warfare-and in doing so uncovers some of the most surprising stories of the time"--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-356) and index. |
| ISBN | 9780300276077 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0300276079 (hardcover) |
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