The First Crusade: A New History, Paperback - Thomas Asbridge

Reducere. On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afi...

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Reducere. The First Crusade was one of the epoch-making events of history. It is also one of the most misunderstood in modern times despite the wealth of eye...

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Set in the Eastern Roman Empire during the First Crusade, Anna's story as an imperial princess and the medieval era's first female historian unfolds.

Reducere. At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders-- their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads--indiscriminately c...

Illustrated with 160 photographs, paintings, artworks and maps, The Crusades is a fascinating and accessible history from the first ill-fated exped...

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Paperback edition of the book which tells the history of the First Crusade of the 1090s from the perspective of the East. It examines the role of t...

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Reducere. The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge--a ...

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