Pre-eminent historian of the Crusaders and Knight Templars, STEVE TIBBLE tells the dark history of the Crusaders. Going beyond the familiar tales of religious warfare and military conquest, Steve delves into the lesser-known side of the crusades—a world teeming with gangsters, pirates, bandits, and opportunists who thrived in the chaos of conflict - and reframes the crusades not just as holy war—but as a hotbed of criminality.
Based on extraordinary new evidence, he reveals how the real driver of violence in the region was not ideology, but demographics: a flood of restless, dislocated, young men who turned the Holy Land into a crucible of lawlessness.
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STEVE TIBBLE is one of the foremost academics currently working in the field of the crusades and is the author of the warfare and strategy chapters in both 'The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades' and 'The Cambridge History of the Crusades' (2023).
His recent publications include 'The Crusader Armies', 'The Crusader Strategy' and Templars - The Knights of Britain'
