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The Crusades - The War for the Holy Land (Paperback, Re-issue)
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The Crusades - The War for the Holy Land (Paperback, Re-issue)
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Released to coincide with a major BBC TV documentary series on the
crusades presented by the author. In the eleventh century, a vast
Christian army, summoned to holy war by the pope, rampaged through
the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession
of Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths. Over the two hundred
years that followed this First Crusade, Islam and the West fought
for dominion of the Holy Land, clashing in a succession of
chillingly brutal wars, both firm in the belief that they were at
God's work. For the first time, this book tells the story of this
epic struggle from the perspective of both Christians and Muslims,
reconstructing the experiences and attitudes of those on either
side of the conflict. Mixing pulsing narrative and piercing
insight, it exposes the full horror, passion and barbaric grandeur
of the crusading era. One of the world's foremost authorities on
the subject, Thomas Asbridge offers a vivid and penetrating history
of the crusades, setting a new standard for modern scholarship.
Drawing upon painstaking original research and an intimate
knowledge of the Near East, he uncovers what drove Muslims and
Christians alike to embrace the ideals of jihadand crusade,
revealing how these holy wars reshaped the medieval world and why
they continue to echo in human memory to this day.
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