God's War  -  Christopher Tyerman

A New History of the Crusades

KORTE INHOUD

The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story, that fundamentally shaped the Christian and Muslim worlds for two centuries, until the last Crusader castles were finally expunged. The energy and commitment that sent army after army into the eastern Mediterranean also led to t...
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2007 Uitgever: Penguin 1040 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0140269800 ISBN-13: 9780140269802