God’s War: A New History of the Crusades
by Christopher Tyerman (England)
2007 / 1056 pages – Kindle (and no page numbers)
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“We are still living with the images and legends of the crusades Tyerman tells us how the Church set about preaching the crusades, exploiting the perennial pessimism and guilt of the European nobility of the Middle Ages. He shows how crusading ideology penetrated the religious sensibility of the period, as well as its secular fiction and poetry Of all the modern histories of the >>>>MORE>>>>