God's war: a new history of the Crusades

From 1096 to 1500, European Christians fought to recreate the Middle East, Muslim Spain, and the pagan Baltic in the image of their God. The Crusades are perhaps both the most familiar and most misunderstood phenomena of the medieval world, and here Christopher Tyerman seeks to recreate, from the gr...

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1. Verfasser: Tyerman, Christopher 1953- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006
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Zusammenfassung:From 1096 to 1500, European Christians fought to recreate the Middle East, Muslim Spain, and the pagan Baltic in the image of their God. The Crusades are perhaps both the most familiar and most misunderstood phenomena of the medieval world, and here Christopher Tyerman seeks to recreate, from the ground up, the centuries of violence committed as an act of religious devotion.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 923-990) and index
Beschreibung:xvi, 1023 p., [16] p. of plates col. ill., maps 24 cm
ISBN:0674023870
9780674023871