The First Crusade: A New History
Autor Thomas Asbridgeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 noi 2020
Nine hundred years ago, one of the most controversial episodes in Christian history was initiated. The Pope stated that, in spite of the apparently pacifist message of the New Testament, God actually wanted European knights to wage a fierce and bloody war against Islam and recapture Jerusalem. Thus was the First Crusade born.
Focusing on the characters that drove this extraordinary campaign, this fascinating period of history is recreated through awe-inspiring and often barbaric tales of bold adventure while at the same time providing significant insights into early medieval society, morality and mentality. The First Crusade marked a watershed in relations between Islam and the West, a conflict that set these two world religions on a course towards deep-seated animosity and enduring enmity. The chilling reverberations of this earth-shattering clash still echo in the world today.
'[Asbridge] balances persuasive analysis with a flair for conveying with dramatic power the crusaders' plight' Financial Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781471196423
ISBN-10: 1471196429
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 2 x 8pp colour plates
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:Reissue
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster UK
ISBN-10: 1471196429
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 2 x 8pp colour plates
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:Reissue
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster UK
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Descriere
Compelling and enlightening in equal measure, and drawing on new research which has radically remoulded our understanding of the movement, THE FIRST CRUSADE is a major work by an outstanding historian.
Recenzii
Rousing....Asbridge knows this territory well. In 1999, he even walked 350 miles of the crusaders' route.
Combines fast-paced history writing, evocotive prose and lucid research for a first-rate history of the First Crusade.... Brilliantly re-creates the three-year history of the First Crusade, chronicling its difficulties and victories, not downplaying its brutality but emphasizing its genuinely religious impulse.
Asbridge, in keeping with his aim to produce a popular history, writes with maximum vividness. Some of this gets a little hokey
Although well researched, the book wears its scholarship lightly and reads like a work of fiction, complete with vivid characters.
Asbridge achieves vivid characterization and gripping storytelling without sacrifice of scholarship. Interweaving analysis, narrative, evocative description and occasional wry humor, he tells us
By focusing on two dozen of the most famous of these crusaders, the author keeps the telling manageable and accessible, and includes eyewitness accounts that describe events with compelling realism.
Balances persuasive analysis with a flair for conveying with dramatic power the crusaders' plight throughout the nine-month siege of Antioch...should revitalize the study of this fascinating period in European history.
Combines fast-paced history writing, evocotive prose and lucid research for a first-rate history of the First Crusade.... Brilliantly re-creates the three-year history of the First Crusade, chronicling its difficulties and victories, not downplaying its brutality but emphasizing its genuinely religious impulse.
Asbridge, in keeping with his aim to produce a popular history, writes with maximum vividness. Some of this gets a little hokey
Although well researched, the book wears its scholarship lightly and reads like a work of fiction, complete with vivid characters.
Asbridge achieves vivid characterization and gripping storytelling without sacrifice of scholarship. Interweaving analysis, narrative, evocative description and occasional wry humor, he tells us
By focusing on two dozen of the most famous of these crusaders, the author keeps the telling manageable and accessible, and includes eyewitness accounts that describe events with compelling realism.
Balances persuasive analysis with a flair for conveying with dramatic power the crusaders' plight throughout the nine-month siege of Antioch...should revitalize the study of this fascinating period in European history.
Notă biografică
Thomas Asbridge is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Queen Mary, University of London.