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Crusader Warfare Volume I - Byzantium, Western Europe and the Battle for the Holy Land (Hardcover)
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Crusader Warfare Volume I - Byzantium, Western Europe and the Battle for the Holy Land (Hardcover)
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This book presents as many aspects as possible of warfare during
the period of the crusades within all the cultures most directly
involved. To a large extent the current interest in the Crusades
reflects the perceived threat of a so-called 'clash of
civilisations'. While warnings of such a supposed clash in our own
times are based upon a misunderstanding of the natures of both
'Western' and 'Islamic' civilisations, some commentators have
looked to the medieval Crusades as an earlier example of such a
clash. In reality they were no such thing. Instead the Crusades
resulted from a remarkable variety of political, economic, cultural
and religious factors. The Crusades, even excluding the Northern or
Baltic Crusades, also involved an extraordinary array of states,
ruling dynasties, ethnic or linguistic groups and the fighting
forces associated with these disparate participants. This volume
focuses on Western Europe and the Byzantium Crusades. Latin or
Catholic Europe certainly had an 'eastern front'. Medieval
Europeans, and certainly the knightly class which came to bear the
brunt of Crusading warfare, would have seen all these fronts as
part of Latin Christendom's struggle against outsiders. The latter
ranged from infidels to schismatics, to pagans and other 'enemies
of God'. Excluding Crusading or Christian frontier warfare north of
the Carpathian Mountains did not reflect any real military or even
political factors on the Latin side of the 'front'. It is based
upon which enemies were to be included and which excluded. This
study looks at Christian and in a few cases "pagan" armies whose
actions or mere existence in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia,
had a bearing upon military, political and economic relations
between Christendom and Islam within the Mediterranean world.
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