Bibliograph

Crusaders, an epic history of the wars for the Holy Lands, Dan Jones

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Crusaders, an epic history of the wars for the Holy Lands, Dan Jones

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Crusaders

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Dan Jones

Sub title

an epic history of the wars for the Holy Lands

Summary

Dan Jones turns his attention to the history of the Crusades - the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule, and which have left an enduring imprint on relations between the Muslim world and the West. From the preaching of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the loss of the last crusader outpost in the Levant in 1302-03, and from the taking of Jerusalem from the Fatimids in 1099 to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, Crusaders tells a tale soaked in Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood, peopled by extraordinary characters, and characterised by both low ambition and high principle

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