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The Siege of Jerusalem - Crusade and Conquest in 1099 (Hardcover)
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The Siege of Jerusalem - Crusade and Conquest in 1099 (Hardcover)
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The story of the final battle of the First Crusade The most
extraordinary siege in medieval history began with the arrival of a
Christian army at Jerusalem on the dawn of Tuesday, 6 June, 1099.
Other sieges may have lasted longer, involved greater numbers of
troops, and deployed more siege engines but nothing else in the
entire medieval period compares to the extraordinary journey that
the besiegers had made to get to their goal and the heady religious
enthusiasm among the troops. This was the culmination of the First
crusade, a military pilgrimage that had seen hundreds of thousands
of men, women, and children leave their homes in Western Europe,
march for three years over thousands of miles, and undergo
tremendous hardship to reach their longed-for goal: Jerusalem. No
other medieval army had made such a journey and no other army had
such a peculiar makeup. There were hundreds of unattached poor
women, gathered from the margins of Northern French towns by the
charity of the charismatic preacher, Peter the hermit, and given a
new direction in their lives through the expedition to Jerusalem.
There were farmers who had sold their land and homes, put all their
belongings in two-wheeled carts, and marched alongside their oxen.
Bards came and earned their keep by composing songs about the
events they were witnessing, from songs about the heroic charges of
the nobles to bawdy satires on the lax behavior of some of the
senior clergy. Naturally, knights and foot soldiers were at the
heart of the fighting forces, but even here there was a strange
fluidity to the army, with the status of a warrior rising or
falling depending on his ability to keep his horse alive and his
armor in good order. "The Siege of Jerusalem" offers a vivid and
engaging account of the events of that siege; the key figures, the
turning points, the spiritual beliefs of the participants, the deep
political rivalries, and the massacre of the inhabitants, which
left such a deep scar in the horrified imagination of those who
learned about it, that it still evokes passionate feelings nearly a
thousand years later. >
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