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A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187
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A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187

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Runciman’s great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics

‘The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion’

The triumph of the First Crusade transformed the eastern Mediterranean, creating a series of European-ruled states along the coast and in Armenia. But the region’s Muslim rulers were far from defeated and the major cities of inland Syria, Egypt and elsewhere now rallied to expel the colonisers. How could the crusaders stabilize their rule and continue to attract the thousands of new recruits needed to replace their terrible losses, both from battle and disease?

A triumph of prose-writing, argument and research, Steven Runciman’s A History of the Crusades is an unimprovable account of events which changed the world and which still resonate today. In this second volume he tells the story of the catastrophic Second Crusade and the inexorable rise of the crusaders’ nemesis, Saladin.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
30 January 2017
Pages
448
ISBN
9780241298763

Runciman’s great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics

‘The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion’

The triumph of the First Crusade transformed the eastern Mediterranean, creating a series of European-ruled states along the coast and in Armenia. But the region’s Muslim rulers were far from defeated and the major cities of inland Syria, Egypt and elsewhere now rallied to expel the colonisers. How could the crusaders stabilize their rule and continue to attract the thousands of new recruits needed to replace their terrible losses, both from battle and disease?

A triumph of prose-writing, argument and research, Steven Runciman’s A History of the Crusades is an unimprovable account of events which changed the world and which still resonate today. In this second volume he tells the story of the catastrophic Second Crusade and the inexorable rise of the crusaders’ nemesis, Saladin.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
30 January 2017
Pages
448
ISBN
9780241298763