The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land - Thomas Asbridge
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The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge - a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker) - covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, listenable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge’s book is a magnificent epic of holy war between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.
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This post has 20 comments with rating of 5/5
August 4th, 2021
Respect the Asbridge - as with the esteemed prof, we’re not worthy.
August 4th, 2021
I once had a heated argument about Crusades with a guy who was Vietnam vet (at least in the sense that he was training to go there but America pulled out, in a rush if memory serves). I told him that the people who promoted various Crusade campaigns were power hungry, greedy buggers and no good Christians, if there ever was one. He went ballistic at the thought and I commented that it would be quite useless to talk about Vietnam with him since he wasn’t over even Crusades yet.
August 4th, 2021
It’s a fascinating history, ill ole pill. The Byzantines had been appealing for aid, as they were under the most brutal attack for centuries. Pilgrims also couldn’t travel in safety. The help from Western Europe took a long time coming; too little & too late, it was thought.
August 4th, 2021
I especially enjoyed reading about the Children’s crusade.
August 4th, 2021
Grazie, professore, ha degli audiolibri italiani? Cercavo il libro - La musica sveglia il tempo - di Daniel Barenboim
August 4th, 2021
The Children’s Crusade was an interesting one. It was neither an actual Crusade, nor made up of an army of children. No one called for it; it was an unsanctioned popular movement, whose beginning & ending are difficult to trace. U & me, ill, myth-busters unite!
August 4th, 2021
Read ‘A Distant Mirror’ by Barbara Tuchman. The crusaders were rapacious brigands who plundered and raped and pillaged on the way to the ‘Holy Land’
August 4th, 2021
@illodiini I feel sorry for him if he is stuck in Afghanistan now
August 4th, 2021
Tuchman is superlative, however, that is not the full story she relates. Her focus is on the 14th c. She treats of the Battle of Nicopolis (French knights’ mission to help the Hungarians defend against attacks by the Ottoman Turks).
Some undoubtedly were bad eggs; often a function of unleashing soldiers on any society. And then there are many figures like Baldwin IV.
August 4th, 2021
@Within - No, he most likely is not. I understand he was drafted at the time.
@caesar - Saladin rocked. Funny thing(?) was that Muslims at the time were much more tolerant and civilized than the mob that presumed to defend Christians and their values.
August 4th, 2021
Saladin was regarded in Europe as a model of chivalry. It’s not black ‘n white, ill. There was violence & oppression throughout the region for centuries; lands which had been notoriously “put to the sword.” I’ll defend Islam alongside u, but only insofar as can be sustained by the historical record.
August 4th, 2021
Seriously, I would listen to the work of an acknowledged expert like Asbridge; also Thomas F. Madden & Christopher Tyerman. Otherwise, it’s all stereotypes.
Myths & misconceptions around the period are legion. Learn about it, and the frosty scales will fall from your eyes.
August 4th, 2021
I think I’ve made clear that I don’t regard any religion very highly. And basic human nature even less. And history is very much the victor’s propaganda salted with bare lies. Myth and misconceptions do alright in that respect. Then again, I enjoy reading about it. Go figure.
August 4th, 2021
Well, victor’s propaganda is interesting given the failure of the Crusades. There are multiple sources, sometimes conflicting - and the historians’ task to weigh veracity. We arrive at a credible chronicle that way. Don’t fall into the ideologue’s (& con theorist’s) trap of expediently dismissing all historical fact as “Fake Nooze!” That’s self-serving in the short term, but ultimately self-defeating.
Moreover, if you take the sceptical approach to its “logical” conclusion, you couldn’t have made the claims about Saladin, and the comparative merits of the combatants.
August 5th, 2021
Short short version: From day one Islam was a violent, oppressive, and war-mongering religion. (It still is). Christians (who have a marginally better history) were sick of being attacked by Muslims when they traveled to The Holy Land, so Europe banded together to fight the Muslim Menace.
August 5th, 2021
@lisiva - the shame of it was that the Christians on the way to the Holy Land, were hopped up on making the world safe to Christendom - and on the way there killed scores and scores and scores of Jews in places like the French and German lands, because, well Jews. Sad tale all around.
August 5th, 2021
A great book. It belongs with gods war by tyerman and the Oxford history of the crusades. Ty for the upload.
August 5th, 2021
@ssafe - You quite appropriately raise a repellent issue from the historical record. I would contend that Jewish people have rarely (if ever) been entirely free or safe, and able to practice their faith without fear, wherever they have lived. Right up to the present. The anti-Semitism on this very site continues to astound me.
In the Caliphates, the practice of wearing special clothing or markings to distinguish Jews & Christians (dhimmis) - in order to stigmatise subject populations - was introduced in the Umayyad Caliphate by Caliph Umar II in the early 8th c. The practice was revived and reinforced by the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil (847–861), subsequently remaining in force for centuries. This also occurred in Europe at various times. A document from 1121 describes the decrees issued in Baghdad:
“Two yellow badges [are to be displayed], one on the headgear and one on the neck. Furthermore, each Jew must hang round his neck a piece of lead with the word Dhimmi on it. He also has to wear a belt round his waist. The women have to wear one red and one black shoe and have a small bell on their necks or shoes.”
Christians & Jews were also forced to wear yellow belts. Hindus in Afghanistan were compelled to wear yellow badges, more recently.
August 6th, 2021
caesar963, i haven’t had this much fun reading comments in a long, long time. Thanks!
August 6th, 2021
We’re just history-chattin’ bp.
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