The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and
wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle
East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders'
stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each
with its own story, that fundamentally shaped the Christian and
Muslim worlds for two centuries, until the last Crusader castles
were finally expunged. The energy and commitment that sent army
after army into the eastern Mediterranean also led to the invasion
and conversion of Central and Baltic Europe, Spain, Portugal, the
destruction of the Cathars in Provence and the settlement of
America. Told with great verve and authority, God's War is the
definitive account of a fascinating but also horrifying story. 'We
are still living with the images and legends of the
crusades...Tyerman tells us how the Church set about preaching the
crusades, exploiting the perennial pessimism and guilt of the
European nobility of the Middle Ages. He shows how crusading
ideology penetrated the religious sensibility of the period, as
well as its secular fiction and poetry...Of all the modern
histories of the crusades it is the shrewdest, the most reliable
and the most complete.' - The Spectator
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