God's War: A New History of the Crusades

Book Reviews / Medieval Encounters 14 (2008) 124-152 129 Christopher Tyerman, God’s War: A New History of the Crusades . Cam- bridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. xvi, 1,023 pp. $35.00 (paper). Th e “medieval encounters” among Christians, Muslims, and Jews that took place in the context of the Crusades featured an extraordinary variety of modes of contact. After the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, the presence of Latin Christian states clinging to the shores of the Levant altered the dynamic of such encounters throughout the medieval world. Even after the fall of Acre in 1291, the