The Crusader Storm A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East

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The Crusader Storm A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East | 10.43 MB

Title: The Crusader Storm A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East
Author: Nicholas Morton
Category: Medieval, Middle East, History, Other
Language: English | 656 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781399818742


Description:
From the First Crusade to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem, this is the story how cultures collided and reshaped the medieval Middle East.
From their foundational era in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern world. In an era shaped by many conflicts, this was not simply a war between Christianity and Islam, but an epic contest among multiple rival empires, dynasties, and cultures.

The Crusader Storm unfolds through a kaleidoscope of perspectives: a Byzantine renegade, a crusader princess, a Turkish matriarch, a young Arab nobleman, a Syriac archbishop, Saladin's leading commander, and the vizier of Egypt. Between them, information, technologies, and ideas-as well as weapons-crossed borders at astonishing speed as their societies fought, allied, and traded. Their entangled fates reshaped not only the Middle East, but the medieval world itself.

Drawing on sources...