How to Plan a CrusadeA lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle Ages. In this highly original and enjoyable book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on the massive, all encompassing and hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and marched off to a highly uncertain future in the Holy Land and