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Michael Lower teaches history at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on violence, religious difference, and Mediterranean culture in the Middle Ages. He is the author of The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences. In 2010-2011, he was a Mellon New Directions Fellow at the University of Chicago. In addition to his work on the crusades, he has published several studies about mercenaries who crossed the religious divide in the Middle Ages.
The titular promise of a history of the Tunis Crusade is delivered; as a step in the direction of a Mediterranean history, incorporating the interactions of all its inhabitants regardless of the languages of their sources, Lower's The Tunis Crusade of 1270is a resounding success. * Aaron Hagler, H-Net * The author of this study has endeavored with excellent results to accomplish these feats. We should all commend Michael Lower for this stimulating and lively mediterranean history. * William Chester Jordan, sehepunkte * ... this is an excellent work. It is well-written, witty, erudite, and very readable... The Tunis Crusade of 1270 should be required reading for any serious scholar of the medieval Mediterranean, not only for the narrative that it lays out, but as an example of thorough scholarship anchored securely in textual evidence drawn from a wide range of perspectives * Brian A. Catlos, Church History * [This] bold, well-reasoned text serves as a useful reminder for historians to consider an event not only in terms of the ramifications for its immediate participants but also in terms of the ripple effects it causes for other regions and societies. Lower ... does an excellent job of examining the historiography and differing theories for why Louis halted his Crusade at Tunis rather than continuing on to Egypt or the Levant ... insightful, engaging, and a wonderful example of new approaches to Crusades history. * CHOICE *
