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Christopher Tyerman
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders
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The fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an exhausted army of Western European soldiers was one of the extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of…
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What were the Crusades ? Were the great Christian expeditions to invade the Holy Land in fact Crusades at all? In this treatment, the author questions the very nature of…
Here Christopher Tyerman explores the centuries of violence committed in the name of religious devotion: the Crusades. He uncovers a system of belief bound by paranoia and a culture founded…
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This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to…
Shows how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle Ages. This is the story of the wars and conquests initiated by the…
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This history of Harrow School, based on unfettered access to the school and governors’ archives, investigates the school’s governors, masters, pupils, finances, social position and curriculum, within the context of…
A story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East. The crusaders’ stunning initial success started a…
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Christopher Tyerman offers this book-length study of the role of England in the Crusades which focuses on the courtroom and council chamber rather than the battlefield. Tyerman seeks to demonstrate…
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Lecturer in Medieval History Christopher Tyerman
A spirited and sweeping account of how the crusades really worked–and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle Ages.
Christopher Tyerman (Lecturer in Medieval History at Hertford College and New College, Oxford)
The Crusades were one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. But were they motivated by spiritual reward or by greed? Were they an early experiment in European…
