The Crusaders. The Complete History
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The Crusaders. The Complete History
19.99 €
15.99 €
A detailed history of the Crusades, told by Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Templars and The Plantagenets.
For more than a thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes in peace and sometimes at war. But when Christian armies captured Jerusalem in 1099, the most infamous period of confrontation between the two religions began. Expanding the usual time frame, Jones turns to the origins of Christian-Muslim relations in the eighth century and traces the impact of the Crusades to the present day. He also expands the geography of events, taking the reader to Spain, North Africa, the south of France, and the Baltic states, where so-called enemies of the Church also lived. Telling the stories of individual participants in the Crusades, Jones shows these centuries of conflict not only from the perspective of popes and kings, but also through the eyes of an Arab-Sicilian poet, a Byzantine princess, a Sunni scholar, a Shiite vizier, a Mongol warlord, and ordinary Christian monks.
For more than a thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes in peace and sometimes at war. But when Christian armies captured Jerusalem in 1099, the most infamous period of confrontation between the two religions began. Expanding the usual time frame, Jones turns to the origins of Christian-Muslim relations in the eighth century and traces the impact of the Crusades to the present day. He also expands the geography of events, taking the reader to Spain, North Africa, the south of France, and the Baltic states, where so-called enemies of the Church also lived. Telling the stories of individual participants in the Crusades, Jones shows these centuries of conflict not only from the perspective of popes and kings, but also through the eyes of an Arab-Sicilian poet, a Byzantine princess, a Sunni scholar, a Shiite vizier, a Mongol warlord, and ordinary Christian monks.
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