The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
- ISBN-10
- 0060787295
- ISBN-13
- 9780060787295
- Series
- The Crusades
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 784
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-03-08
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Author
- Thomas Asbridge
Description
From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the holy land Nine hundred years ago, 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, Islam and Christianity fought for dominion of the Holy Land, clashing in a succession of chillingly brutal wars: the Crusades. Here for the first time is the story of that epic struggle told from the perspective of both Christians and Muslims. A vivid and fast-paced narrative history, it exposes the full horror, passion, and barbaric grandeur of the Crusading era, revealing how these holy wars reshaped the medieval world and why they continue to influence events today.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Crusades: A History
By Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-SmithThis new edition includes revisions throughout as well as a new Preface and Afterword in which Jonathan Riley-Smith surveys recent developments in the field and examines responses to the Crusades in different periods, from the Romantics to ...
-
The Crusades: A Reader: Second Edition
By Emilie Amt, S.J. AllenSince the publication of the first edition of The Crusades: A Reader, interest in the Crusades has increased dramatically, fueled in part by current global interactions between the Muslim world and Western nations.
-
An Introduction to the Crusades
By S.J. AllenNineteenth-Century Islam and the Crusades -- The Twentieth Century -- The Twenty-First Century -- Box 5.1: Matthew Schlimm's Analysis of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven -- Questions for Reflection -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Who's Who in ...
-
What Were the Crusades?
By Jonathan Riley-SmithRiley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading...
-
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
By Thomas AsbridgeFor the first time, this book tells the story of that epic struggle from the perspective of both Christians and Muslims.
-
The World of the Crusades
By Christopher Tyerman... The First Crusade: The Call from the East (London 2012); on the Normans in southern Italy, G. Loud, ... Some important insights intologistics are contained in the contributions in J. H. Pryor, ed., Logistics of Warfare in the Age of ...
-
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
By Carole HillenbrandThis comprehensive work of cultural history gives us something we have never had: a view of the Crusades as seen through Muslim eyes.
-
The Concise History of the Crusades
By Thomas F. MaddenWere the crusades the Christian equivalent of Muslim jihad? In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling narrative of the crusades and their contemporary relevance.
-
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
By Jonathan Riley-SmithJust as vital to the interests of crusaders were the arrangements they had to make for the administration of their properties in what were bound to be long absences : at the time of the First Crusade there seems to have been already ...
-
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades
By Paul L. WilliamsPresents a history of the Crusades discussing why these wars began and their impact on the world, the origins of Holy Orders and the roles they played in the Crusades, and life in the Middle Ages.