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God's War: A New History of the Crusades

Author Christopher Tyerman

Format Hardcover

Publisher Belknap Press

Category Medieval History

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[This book] offers a history's most astounding events: 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 [the author of this book] seeks to recreate, from the ground up, the centuries of violence committed as an act of religious devotion. The result is a ... reinterpretation of the Crusades, revealed as both bloody political acts and a manifestation of a growing Christian communal identity. [In the book, he] uncovers a system of belief bound by aggression, paranoia, and wishful thinking, and a culture founded on war as an expression of worship, social discipline, and Christian charity. [He] examine[s] the thousands and thousands of Christian men - from Knights Templars to mercenaries to peasants - who, in the name of their Savior, abandoned their homes to conquer distant and alien lands, as well as the countless people who defended their soil and eventually turned these invaders back.... He also offers unique insight into the maturation of a militant Christianity that defined Europe's identity and that has forever influenced the cyclical antagonisms between the Christian and Muslim worlds. -Dust jacket.

Authors

Christopher Tyerman

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  • Publisher: Belknap Press
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780674023871

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