The First Crusade: A New History by Asbridge, Thomas - 2005-09-29

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New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 9th Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 9x1x6. 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… Read More

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. Trade Paperback. GOOD. 0 9780195189056 C2004 VERY GOOD TRADE PAPERBACK; ILLUSTRATED [MILD WEAR, CREASED PAGE EDGES TO PRELIMS, ELSE VERY GOOD INSIDE] THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM

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