How To Plan A Crusade: Religious War In The High Middle Ages
by Christopher Tyerman /
2017 / English / EPUB
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A spirited and sweeping account of how the crusades
really worked―and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we
understand the Middle Ages.
A spirited and sweeping account of how the crusades
really worked―and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we
understand the Middle Ages.The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First
Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most
accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to
the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book,
Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked:
the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of
actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men
and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and
marched off to a highly uncertain future in the Holy Land and
elsewhere have never been sufficiently understood. Their actions
raise a host of compelling questions about the nature of medieval
society.
The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First
Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most
accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to
the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book,
Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked:
the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of
actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men
and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and
marched off to a highly uncertain future in the Holy Land and
elsewhere have never been sufficiently understood. Their actions
raise a host of compelling questions about the nature of medieval
society.How to Plan a Crusade
How to Plan a Crusade is remarkably illuminating on the
diplomacy, communications, propaganda, use of mass media, medical
care, equipment, voyages, money, weapons, wills, ransoms, animals,
and the power of prayer during this dynamic era. It brings to life
an extraordinary period of history in a new and surprising way. 16
pages of color illustrations
is remarkably illuminating on the
diplomacy, communications, propaganda, use of mass media, medical
care, equipment, voyages, money, weapons, wills, ransoms, animals,
and the power of prayer during this dynamic era. It brings to life
an extraordinary period of history in a new and surprising way. 16
pages of color illustrations