The Barons' Crusade A Call to Arms and Its Consequences Michael Lower "Michael Lower has begun a reassessment of the historiographical paradigm in regard to crusading which has grown so comfortable to European and American scholars in last century. He has done this by engaging in more contextualization and less theory. The result is an evolving picture of crusading as a process which owed as much to realpolitik as to muscular Christianity. . . . This a well-argued and researched book which is accessible to both general and academic readers."--Medieval Review "What a dismal story...

The rights of the employee and the themes of employee ownership and participation have been central, recurring themes as the body of Catholic Social Thought has developed. There is now a unified corpus of official Catholic teaching that focuses the resources of moral theology and natural law theory on the important social issues of the day such as this. The description and explanation of the essential elements of Catholic Social Thought and its relationship to these themes helps the reader think about the place of the corporation in the economy and whether British and European corporate...

The story of how the last major expedition led by a European king in aid of the Holy Land ended with the attack on Tunis, a peaceful North African port city thousands of miles from the Crusader States.