The crusades.
By: Translated from the French by Anne Carter.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 650
Subjects: Crusades
Description: It was a great adventure, motivated by more than simply religion or pure aggression: the Crusades resulted from an emotional climate that led people from all walks of life to leave their homes and follow the unattainable ideal of a heavenly Jerusalem here on Earth. A prize-winning author paints a portrait of the whole of feudal society, evoking its exceptional vitality and the ingenuity of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem--one of the more sophisticated achievements of the Middle Ages--and personalities such as Tancred, Peter the Hermit, Richard the Lionhearted, and Saladin.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [628]-632.