Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. First Edition. A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era.Expanding the usual timeframe, Jones looks to the roots of Christian-Muslim relations in the eighth century and tracks the influence of crusading to present day. He widens the geographical focus to far-flung regions home to so-called enemies of the Church, including Spain, North Africa, southern France, and the Baltic states. By telling intimate stories of individual journeys, Jones illuminates these centuries of war not only from the perspective of popes and kings, but from Arab-Sicilian poets, Byzantine princesses, Sunni scholars, Shi'ite viziers, Mamluk slave soldiers, Mongol chieftains, and barefoot friars.Crusading remains a rallying call to this day, but its role in the popular imagination ignores the cooperation and complicated coexistence that were just as much a feature of the period as warfare. The age-old relationships between faith, conquest, wealth, power, and trade meant that crusading was not only about fighting for the glory of God, but also, among other earthly reasons, about gold. In this richly dramatic narrative that gives voice to sources usually pushed to the margins, Dan Jones has written an authoritative survey of the holy wars with global scope and human focus. Codice articolo DADAX0525428313

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Dan Jones

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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between Christianity and Islam in history. The fall of the holy city and the subsequent events have been seen both as an inspiring triumph of courage and piety and as a horrifying epic of violence and conquest. In his magnificent new book, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human path through the crusading era. Crusaders offers a tableau of characters beyond the usual roster of popes and kings to introduce Byzantine princesses, Sunni scholars, Shi'ite viziers, Mamluk slave soldiers, Mongol chieftains, and barefoot friars. We meet individuals like Margaret of Beverley, an Englishwoman who defended Jerusalem during Saladin's siege armed with a cooking pot for a helmet; Saladin himself, the extraordinary Muslim leader who nearly destroyed the crusader states; and the poet Ibn Hamdis, who spent his life in exile wandering the Islamic Mediterranean, composing verses for the highest bidder, as well as countless others swept up on all sides in four centuries of war. Crusading remains a rallying call to this day, but its role in the popular imagination ignores the cooperation and complicated diplomatic maneuvers that were just as much a feature of the period as warfare. The age-old relationships between faith, conquest, wealth, power, and trade meant that crusading was not only about fighting for the glory of God, but also, among other earthly reasons, about gold. In this richly dramatic narrative that gives voice to sources usually pushed to the margins, Dan Jones has written the defining account of the holy wars with global scope and human focus. THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. VIKING, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2019 THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK. Codice articolo 003026

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