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Comprehensive visual journey through medieval crusades.

If you're intrigued by the complexity of medieval history, this book offers a full dive into the Crusades with rich illustrations to guide you. It's a vivid retelling that marries educational depth with visual storytelling, giving you both a scholar's overview and a tourist's experience right from your armchair.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades

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ISBN: 9780192854285
Date of Publication: 2001-05-24
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Personal Development, Religion
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In The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, the story of the Crusades is told as never before in an engrossing, authoritative, and comprehensive history that ranges from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of the crusading ideals and imagery that continues today. Here are the ideas of apologists, propagandists, and poets about the Crusades, as well as the perceptions and motives of the crusaders themselves and the means by which they joined the movement. The authors describe the elaborate social and civic systems that arose to support the Crusades—taxation, for example, was formalized by the Church and monarchs to raise enormous funds needed to wage war on this scale. And here are vivid descriptions of the battles themselves, frightening, disorienting, and dangerous affairs, with keen and insightful commentary on the reactions of the Muslims to a Christian holy war. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of photographs, paintings, drawings, maps, chronologies, and a guide to further reading, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades even includes coverage of crusades outside the eastern Mediterranean region and post-medieval crusades. From descriptions of the battles and homefront conditions, to a thorough evaluation of the clash (and coalescence) of cultures, to the legacy of the crusading movement that continues into our conflict-torn twentieth century, to the enduring artistic and social changes that the Crusades wrought
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Comprehensive visual journey through medieval crusades.

If you're intrigued by the complexity of medieval history, this book offers a full dive into the Crusades with rich illustrations to guide you. It's a vivid retelling that marries educational depth with visual storytelling, giving you both a scholar's overview and a tourist's experience right from your armchair.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.