Crusaders

Crusaders
Title Crusaders PDF eBook
Author Dan Jones
Publisher Penguin
Pages 481
Release 2020-10-06
Genre History
ISBN 0143108972

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A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones. For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era. Expanding the usual timeframe, Jones looks to the roots of Christian-Muslim relations in the eighth century and tracks the influence of crusading to present day. He widens the geographical focus to far-flung regions home to so-called enemies of the Church, including Spain, North Africa, southern France, and the Baltic states. By telling intimate stories of individual journeys, Jones illuminates these centuries of war not only from the perspective of popes and kings, but from Arab-Sicilian poets, Byzantine princesses, Sunni scholars, Shi'ite viziers, Mamluk slave soldiers, Mongol chieftains, and barefoot friars. Crusading remains a rallying call to this day, but its role in the popular imagination ignores the cooperation and complicated coexistence that were just as much a feature of the period as warfare. The age-old relationships between faith, conquest, wealth, power, and trade meant that crusading was not only about fighting for the glory of God, but also, among other earthly reasons, about gold. In this richly dramatic narrative that gives voice to sources usually pushed to the margins, Dan Jones has written an authoritative survey of the holy wars with global scope and human focus.

The Glory of the Crusades

The Glory of the Crusades
Title The Glory of the Crusades PDF eBook
Author Steve Weidenkopf
Publisher Catholic Answers
Pages 285
Release 2014-10-01
Genre History
ISBN 9781941663004

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The Gift

The Gift
Title The Gift PDF eBook
Author Jack T. Chick
Publisher Chick Publications
Pages 36
Release 1977
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 075890911X

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This classic full-color comic book by Jack Chick provides a detailed view of Jesus' Crucifixion as few have seen it. See the events and treachery of His trial, and the brutality of crucifixion. You will have a new appreciation of the price paid by Jesus to redeem men from sin.

The World of the Crusades

The World of the Crusades
Title The World of the Crusades PDF eBook
Author Christopher Tyerman
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 545
Release 2019-05-23
Genre History
ISBN 0300245459

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A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliquaries. Campaigns required material funds and equipment, while conquests produced bureaucracies, taxation, economic exploitation, and commercial regulation. Wealth sustained the Crusades while material objects, from weaponry and military technology to carpentry and shipping, conditioned them. This lavishly illustrated volume considers the material trappings of crusading wars and the objects that memorialized them, in architecture, sculpture, jewelry, painting, and manuscripts. Christopher Tyerman’s incorporation of the physical and visual remains of crusading enriches our understanding of how the crusaders themselves articulated their mission, how they viewed their place in the world, and how they related to the cultures they derived from and preyed upon.

The Crusades

The Crusades
Title The Crusades PDF eBook
Author Thomas Asbridge
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 790
Release 2010-03-30
Genre History
ISBN 0061981362

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The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge’s book is a magnificent epic of Holy War between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.

The Crusades

The Crusades
Title The Crusades PDF eBook
Author Timothy L. Biel
Publisher Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Pages 118
Release 1995
Genre History
ISBN 9781560062455

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Describes the medieval conflict between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East.

The Crusaders

The Crusaders
Title The Crusaders PDF eBook
Author Emma R. Norton
Publisher
Pages 312
Release 1882
Genre Temperance
ISBN

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