First Crusade - A New History Asbridge Thomas
First Crusade - A New History Asbridge Thomas On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. Some 100,000 men, from knights to…
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First Crusade - A New History Asbridge Thomas
On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. 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. His words set Christendom afire.
Featured in vivid detail are the siege of Nicaea and the pivotal battle for Antioch, the single most important military engagement 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.
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