ABSTRACT
Giles Constable, professor emeritus of medieval history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is widely known as a distinguished historian of medieval monasticism and religious thought, thanks to his twenty-some books and roughly a hundred articles devoted to these matters. He has in addition, however, maintained an enduring interest in crusading history, starting with his classic study of “The Second Crusade as seen by Contemporaries,” which appeared in Traditio in 1952, an extraordinarily remarkable article for a young scholar who was, I believe, only 23 years old when it first appeared.
