Chronicles of the First Crusade
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- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2012
Summary
‘O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!’
The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of Western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour and the beginning of what proved to be a futile and abortive attempt to implant a new European kingdom in an overwhelmingly Muslim world. The legacy of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241955222 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024195522X |
| Author: | Christopher Tyerman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Of all the modern histories of the crusades it is the shrewdest, the most reliable and the most complete [Praise for God’s War ]
Of all the modern histories of the crusades it is the shrewdest, the most reliable and the most complete [Praise for God’s War] * The Spectator *
About The Author
Christopher Tyerman
Christopher Tyerman is a Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College, Oxford and Lecturer in Medieval History at New College Oxford. He has written extensively on the crusades, most recently God’s War- A New History of the Crusades (2006) and The Debate on the Crusades (2011).
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