First full-length study of Pope Gregory X in relation to Crusade, demonstrating his significant impact.

In 1213, Pope Innocent III issued his letter Vineam Domini, thundering against the enemies of Christendom—the "beasts of many kinds that are attempting to des

Explores the role of the nobility and analogous traditional elites in contemporary society.

Pope Gregory X stood at the very centre of the crusading movement in the later thirteenth century. An able diplomat, he showed himself adept at navigating the p

The crusades were among the longest and most bitter wars in human history and consisted of no less than seven major expeditions from Western Europe from the lat