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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and. Thomas asbridgea renowned historian who writes with maximum vividness joan acocella, the new yorker covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. Now, in the first crusade, thomas asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic threeyear adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy princes and barbarity on a vast scale. He vividly portrays the driving forces and personalities, the perspectives of christians and muslims, and the legacy of the crusades in christian and muslim history and. The remarkable life of william marshal, the power behind five english thrones. The first crusade marked a watershed in relations between islam and the west, a conflict that set these two. Released to coincide with a major bbc tv documentary series on the crusades presented by the author. Beginning with the electrifying speech delivered by pope urban ii on the last tuesday of november in the year 1095, readers will follow the more than 100,000 men who mobilized in europe where great waves of. Instead, they were fighting for control of a land that, in some respects, was also a muslim frontier, the 1216 magna carta was distinctive in two further regards.
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