Description: Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... The First Crusade: A New History - The Roots of Conflict Between Christianity and Islam ISBN:0195189051 Author:Asbridge, Thomas Publisher:Oxford University Press Release Date:2005 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:New Sku: 2338604 Notes: Nineth printing. A fine copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. xvi, 408 pp. On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afire. Some 100,000 men, from knights to paupers, took up the call--the largest mobilization of manpower since the fall of the Roman Empire. Now, in The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy princes and barbarity on a vast scale. Readers follow the crusaders from their mobilization in Europe (where great waves of anti-Semitism resulted in the deaths of thousands of Jews), to their arrival in Constantinople, an exotic, opulent city--ten times the size of any city in Europe--that bedazzled the Europeans. Featured in vivid detail are the siege of Nicaea and the pivotal battle for Antioch, the single most important military engagement of the entire expedition, where the crusaders, in desperate straits, routed a larger and better-equipped Muslim army. Through all this, the crusaders were driven on by intense religious devotion, convinced that their struggle would earn them the reward of eternal paradise in Heaven. But when a hardened core finally reached Jerusalem in 1099 they unleashed an unholy wave of brutality, slaughtering thousands of Muslims--men, women, and children--all in the name of Christianity. The First Crusade marked a watershed in relations between Islam and the West, a conflict that set these two world religions on a course toward deep-seated animosity and enduring enmity. The chilling reverberations of this earth-shattering clash still echo in the world today. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Book Title: First Crusade : a New History
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Topic: Christianity / History, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Christianity / General, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year: 2005
Item Height: 1.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, History
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Thomas Asbridge
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Perfect
