The Social Structure of the First Crusade, Conor Kostick — 1st Edition

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The Social Structure of the First Crusade, Conor Kostick — 1st Edition

Name: The Social Structure of the First Crusade, Conor Kostick — 1st Edition
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Publication: Leiden, Brill, 2008

Formatting: 8vo, pp. [xii], 324.

Condition Report: Fine. An exceptionally well-preserved copy of this scholarly text, bound in the publisher’s original pictorial laminated boards. The binding remains uniformly tight and square, with sharp, unbumped corners and an uncreased spine indicating the book has seen little to no use. The teal boards are bright and entirely free from shelf-wear, scuffing, or rubbing. Internally, the text block is pristine; the hinges are perfectly secure, and the visible pages are remarkably crisp, clean, and bright, devoid of spotting, toning, or reading wear.

Catalogue Note: This is a true first edition, issued as Volume 76 in Brill’s prestigious 'The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500' series.

As is customary for this series, the volume was issued in pictorial hardback boards without a dust jacket. The front board features a reproduction of James Archer’s evocative nineteenth-century painting, Peter the Hermit Preaching the First Crusade.

Scholarly monographs published by Brill are typically produced in limited print runs intended primarily for academic institutions and specialized libraries, rendering first-edition hardbacks genuinely scarce on the open retail market.

Kostick’s meticulously researched volume has since become a standard reference for examining the social dynamics and structural tensions between the varied classes of participants in the First Crusade.

In The Social Structure of the First Crusade, award-winning author and historian Conor Kostick offers a groundbreaking sociological analysis of the monumental expedition that reshaped the medieval world. Moving beyond traditional narratives of military strategy and religious zeal, Kostick dissects the diverse social groups who answered the call to march on Jerusalem between 1096 and 1099. By rigorously interrogating contemporary and near-contemporary eyewitness accounts, the book provides a fresh, nuanced perspective on the underlying social dynamics, motivations, and structural tensions that characterized this unprecedented mass movement.

Book Condition: Fine

Book Authors: Conor Kostick

Book Publisher: Brill

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: History

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 324

Book Publication Year: 2008

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: The Medieval Mediterranean

Country/region of manufacture: Chippenham, United Kingdom

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