Crusaders Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Dan Jones
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
119

Crusaders by Dan Jones Book Summary

A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones.

For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era.

Expanding the usual timeframe, Jones looks to the roots of Christian-Muslim relations in the eighth century and tracks the influence of crusading to present day. He widens the geographical focus to far-flung regions home to so-called enemies of the Church, including Spain, North Africa, southern France, and the Baltic states. By telling intimate stories of individual journeys, Jones illuminates these centuries of war not only from the perspective of popes and kings, but from Arab-Sicilian poets, Byzantine princesses, Sunni scholars, Shi'ite viziers, Mamluk slave soldiers, Mongol chieftains, and barefoot friars.

Crusading remains a rallying call to this day, but its role in the popular imagination ignores the cooperation and complicated coexistence that were just as much a feature of the period as warfare. The age-old relationships between faith, conquest, wealth, power, and trade meant that crusading was not only about fighting for the glory of God, but also, among other earthly reasons, about gold. In this richly dramatic narrative that gives voice to sources usually pushed to the margins, Dan Jones has written an authoritative survey of the holy wars with global scope and human focus.

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Book Name Crusaders
Genre European History
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Language English
E-Book Size 52.03 MB

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Sorry for the ignorance. What James924 wrote below is complete garbage. The critiques that he makes against the book are completely irrelevant to the contents of the book, as they are actually critiques of the DESCRIPTION of the book, which I’m willing to wager is the only thing he did read.

Ummm… what?. For 1000 years Christian’s and Muslims had lived together? Ummm… Islam was began in 610 AD. Not 99 AD, geniuses. So that would be around 450 years. Not 1,000 years. And it says the Christians “began” the period of war with the first crusade? Umm…. So I guess the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem, Palestine, Asian Minor, North Africa, and Spain and souther France…. That doesn’t count? That’s all considered “peace”? But the *response* of the crusades is what “started” the period of war? How do you just knowingly Lie about things like this? So annoying. And how can you make such a bizarre mathematical/chronological error?

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The Crusaders book written by Dan Jones was published on 01 October 2019, Tuesday in the European History category. A total of 119 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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