The writings in this volume illustrate several aspects of the transformation of Europe from Ro...

Here presented for the first time in English are the law codes of the Lombard kings who ruled Ita...

To enable the reader to shape, or perhaps reshape, an understanding of the Islamic tradition, F. ...

For the non-Muslim, Mecca is the most forbidden of Holy Cities--and yet, in many ways it is the b...

They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, 'the Promised Lands.' In all of Europe, onl...

The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the...

During the thirteenth century, the widespread conviction that the Christian lands in Syria and Pa...

In 1213, Pope Innocent III issued his letter Vineam Domini, thundering against the enemies of Chr...

This remarkable portrayal of Jerusalem has become a favorite of many readers interested in this c...