The First Crusade: A New History by Thomas Asbridge

The First Crusade: A New History

Thomas Asbridge

408 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. In the largest mobilization since the fall of the Roman Empire, some 100,000 men took up the call, driven on by intense religious devotion, convinced that the...

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