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God's War: A New History Of The Crusades

'God's War' tells the powerful and horrifying story of the Crusades - an explosive mixture of religious quest and greed for treasure that led enormous Christian armies to invade the Islamic world.

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  • "Dějiny křížových výprav"
  • "Una nueva historia de las cruzadas"
  • "Una nueva historia de las cruzadas"@es

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  • "'God's War' tells the powerful and horrifying story of the Crusades - an explosive mixture of religious quest and greed for treasure that led enormous Christian armies to invade the Islamic world."@en
  • "'God's War' tells the powerful and horrifying story of the Crusades - an explosive mixture of religious quest and greed for treasure that led enormous Christian armies to invade the Islamic world."
  • "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. The result is a reinterpretation of the Crusades, revealed as both bloody political acts and a manifestation of a growing Christian communal identity. Tyerman 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. This historical narrative is imbued with figures that have become legends--Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, Philip Augustus. But Tyerman also delves beyond these leaders to examine 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. Tyerman explicates the contradictory mix of genuine piety, military ferocity, and plain greed that motivated generations of Crusaders. He also offers 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. --From publisher's description."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Monografie"
  • "History"
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  • "Church history"

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  • "God's war"
  • "Godʹs War : a new history of the Crusades"
  • "God's War : a new history of the Crusades"
  • "Las Guerras de Dios : una nueva historia de las Cruzadas"
  • "La guerre di Dio : nuova storia delle crociate"
  • "Le guerre di Dio : nuova storia delle crociate"@it
  • "Le guerre di Dio : nuova storia delle crociate"
  • "Las guerras de Dios : una nueva historia de las cruzadas"@es
  • "Las guerras de Dios : una nueva historia de las cruzadas"
  • "God's war : a new history of the crusades"
  • "God's war : a new history of the Crusades"
  • "God's War: A New History Of The Crusades"@en
  • "Svaté války : dějiny křížových výprav"
  • "God's war a new history of the Crusades"
  • "God's war a new history of the Crusades"@en
  • "Las guerra de Dios : una nueva historia de las cruzadas"@es

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