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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674023870

ISBN-139780674023871

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Book TitleGod's War : a New History of the Crusades

Number of Pages1040 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMilitary / General, History, Middle East / General, Europe / Medieval

Publication Year2006

IllustratorYes

GenreReligion, History

AuthorChristopher Tyerman

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height2.3 in

Item Weight55.8 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-047217

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsChristopher Tyerman's God's War is comprehensive, fascinating, and timely. It deflates comparisons of current U.S. strategies with the Crusades. True, the participation of religious in battle (like Odo on the Bayeux Tapestry) is noteworthy, but so is Tyerman's questioning of the clich 'Age of Faith.' Indeed, while these books make the Middle Ages seem real, they also make it seem different, and our capacity to entertain the differences is morally crucial., This is likely to replace Steven Runciman's 50-year-old "History of the Crusades" as the standard work. Tyerman, lecturer in medieval history at Oxford University, demolishes our simplistic misconceptions about that series of ferocious campaigns in the Middle East, Muslim Spain and the pagan Baltic between 1096 and 1500..."God's War" is that very rare thing: a readable and vivid history written with the support of a formidable scholarly background, and it deserves to reach a wide audience., Anyone who likes knights, castles and battles as much as I do will enjoy Christopher Tyerman's masterpiece God's War , a history of the Crusades written with great breadth, clarity and human sympathy: one of the achievements of the year., Christendom made war to wrest the Holy Lands from Muslim hands. As we all know, this isn't considered ancient history in the Middle East., Tyerman, an Oxford scholar, combines vigorous argument and nuanced analysis in this deeply learned chronicle of the Crusades...It's the best single-volume treatment of this still-controversial and fraught subject., Christopher Tyerman's God's War: A New History of the Crusades is a doorstop of a book, a mammoth effort to retell, based on modern scholarship, the story of how Western Christendom made war to wrest the Holy Lands from Muslim hands. As we all know, this isn't considered ancient history in the Middle East., With rekindled controversy about Western invasions of the Middle East, the Crusades of the late Middle Ages take on unanticipated relevance. It is thus a real boon for this strikingly effective book to appear at this time. The key to Tyerman's signal success is his ability to explain both the vicious brutality and the serious Christian altruism that were so intimately intertwined in the crusading experience and that have left such a tangled legacy for Muslim-Christian relations to this day., Ages. Hefty, encyclopedic and a darn good read, Tyerman's book has the rarest of virtues among myriad treatments of the subject: It doesn't bend history to preconceptions., history written with the support of a formidable scholarly background, and it deserves to reach a wide audience., Christopher Tyerman's "God's War" is comprehensive, fascinating, and timely. It deflates comparisons of current U.S. strategies with the Crusades. True, the participation of religious in battle (like Odo on the Bayeux Tapestry) is noteworthy, but so is Tyerman's questioning of the clicheacute; 'Age of Faith.' Indeed, while these books make the Middle Ages seem real, they also make it seem different, and our capacity to entertain the differences is morally crucial., Anyone who likes knights, castles and battles as much as I do will also enjoy Christopher Tyerman's masterpiece God's War, a history of the Crusades written with great breadth, clarity and human sympathy: one of the achievements of the year., Challenging traditional conceptions of the Crusades, e.g., the failure to retain Jerusalem, Tyerman believes that it was the weakening of papal power and the rise of secular governments in Europe that finally doomed the crusading impulse. This is a marvelously conceived, written, and supported book., broader scope of crusading, including Spain, the Balkans, and the Baltic. Most importantly for historians, the author sees nothing in the Crusades than can inform modem politics., A magisterial work...it is a shoo-in to become this generation's definitive history of the original Crusades, a series of military expeditions that temporarily returned the Holy Land to Christian rule in the Middle Ages. Hefty, encyclopedic and a darn good read, Tyerman's book has the rarest of virtues among myriad treatments of the subject: It doesn't bend history to preconceptions., This is likely to replace Steven Runciman's 50-year-old History of the Crusades as the standard work. Tyerman, lecturer in medieval history at Oxford University, demolishes our simplistic misconceptions about that series of ferocious campaigns in the Middle East, Muslim Spain and the pagan Baltic between 1096 and 1500... God's War is that very rare thing: a readable and vivid history written with the support of a formidable scholarly background, and it deserves to reach a wide audience., Tyerman offers a sane, informed, and gripping account of one of the most characteristic and most extraordinary manifestations of the Christian Middle Ages., God's War is a long but highly readable account of this extensive back-and-forth struggle. It is an impressive achievement, a work that manages to tie together an extraordinary number of threads across nearly half a millennium of European history. Although it can be taken as a response to Pope Benedict XVI's comments at Regensburg, it is more properly read as an extended rejoinder to Steven Runciman's classic three-volume History of the Crusades , published in the early 1950s, a long and colorful account that is nonetheless studded with judgments that now seem prejudiced and amateurish. Tyerman, by contrast, is never amateurish. His knowledge of the period is encyclopedic, and his judgments are sharp, astute, and fair--which is to say unsparing--to both camps. He neither vilifies Islam nor engages in the easy Euro-bashing that is the obverse of Islamophobia. With so many people succumbing to subjectivism these days, it is bracing to come across a historian who remains resolutely above the fray, who insists on viewing the conflict as a whole and who always has the broader context in mind., This strikingly effective book explains the vicious brutality and the serious Christian altruism so intimately intertwined in the crusading experience, Christopher Tyerman, who teaches medieval history in Oxford, offers in his new and massive study of the Crusades as a whole a welcome synthesis for the general reader...Full of fascinating detail..."God's War" is a first-rate, scholarly, up-to-date, and highly readable survey of the entire crusading movement...In the gullible age of "The Da Vinci Code", Tyerman offers a sane, informed, and gripping account of one of the most characteristic and most extraordinary manifestations of the Christian Middle Ages., Combines vigorous argument and nuanced analysis in this deeply learned chronicle of the Crusades...the best single-volume treatment of this still-controversial and fraught subject., Anyone who likes knights, castles and battles as much as I do will enjoy Christopher Tyerman's masterpiece "God's War", a history of the Crusades written with great breadth, clarity and human sympathy: one of the achievements of the year., Christopher Tyerman's God's War is comprehensive, fascinating, and timely. It deflates comparisons of current U.S. strategies with the Crusades. True, the participation of religious in battle (like Odo on the Bayeux Tapestry) is noteworthy, but so is Tyerman's questioning of the clicheacute; 'Age of Faith.' Indeed, while these books make the Middle Ages seem real, they also make it seem different, and our capacity to entertain the differences is morally crucial., God's War is a long but highly readable account of this extensive back-and-forth struggle. It is an impressive achievement, a work that manages to tie together an extraordinary number of threads across nearly half a millennium of European history. Although it can be taken as a response to Pope Benedict XVI's comments at Regensburg, it is more properly read as an extended rejoinder to Steven Runciman's classic three-volume History of the Crusades, published in the early 1950s, a long and colorful account that is nonetheless studded with judgments that now seem prejudiced and amateurish. Tyerman, by contrast, is never amateurish. His knowledge of the period is encyclopedic, and his judgments are sharp, astute, and fair--which is to say unsparing--to both camps. He neither vilifies Islam nor engages in the easy Euro-bashing that is the obverse of Islamophobia. With so many people succumbing to subjectivism these days, it is bracing to come across a historian who remains resolutely above the fray, who insists on viewing the conflict as a whole and who always has the broader context in mind., Christopher Tyerman, who teaches medieval history in Oxford, offers in his new and massive study of the Crusades as a whole a welcome synthesis for the general reader...Full of fascinating detail... God's War is a first-rate, scholarly, up-to-date, and highly readable survey of the entire crusading movement...In the gullible age of The Da Vinci Code , Tyerman offers a sane, informed, and gripping account of one of the most characteristic and most extraordinary manifestations of the Christian Middle Ages., God's War is the new standard in the field...Adjectives for [it] almost fail. "Comprehensive," "monumental," and "epic" come to mind, and they are appropriate but scarcely adequate. In brief, this is a work by a master historian., This thick book compares favorably to Sir Steven Runciman's three-volume A History of the Crusades (1951-54), but where Runciman, writing a half century ago, saw the Crusades as Christianity's moral failure, Tyerman sees a violent era: neither Christians nor Moslems were peaceful, and both faced dangerous enemies...In addition to persuasive revisionist interpretations of individual crusades, Tyerman treats the broader scope of crusading, including Spain, the Balkans, and the Baltic. Most importantly for historians, the author sees nothing in the Crusades than can inform modem politics.

Dewey Decimal909.07

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Europe and the Mediterranean The First Crusade 1. The Origins of Christian Holy War 2. The Summons to Jerusalem 3. The March to Constantinople 4. The Road to the Holy Sepulchre Frankish Outremer 5. The Foundation of Christian Outremer 6. The Latin States 7. East is East and East is West: Outremer in the Twelfth Century The Second Crusade 8. A New Path to Salvation? Western Christendom and Holy War 1100-1145 9. God's Bargain: Summoning the Second Crusade 10. 'The Spirit of the Pilgrim God': Fighting the Second Crusade The Third Crusade 11. 'A Great Cause for Mourning': The Revival of Crusading and the Third Crusade 12. The Call of the Cross 13. To the Siege of Acre 14. The Palestine War 1191-2 The Fourth Crusade 15. 'Ehud's Sharpened Sword' 16. The Fourth Crusade: Preparations 17. The Fourth Crusade: Diversion The Expansion of Crusading 18. The Albigensian Crusades 1209-29 19. The Fifth Crusade 1213-21 20. Frontier Crusades 1: Conquest in Spain 21. Frontier Crusades 2: the Baltic and the North The Defence of Outremer 22. Survival and Decline: the Frankish Holy Land in the Thirteenth Century 23. The Defence of the Holy Land 1221-44 24. Louis IX and the Fall of Mainland Outremer 1244-91 The Later Crusades 25. The Eastern Crusades in the Later Middle Ages 26. The Crusade and Christian Society in the Later Middle Ages Conclusion Notes Select Further Reading Select List of Rulers Index

SynopsisTyerman gives a sweeping new vision of one of history's most astounding events: the Crusades. Drawing on all of the most recent scholarship, and told with great verve and authority, "God's War" is the definitive account of a fascinating and horrifying story that continues to haunt our contemporary world., 'God's War' is a definitive history of the Crusades, drawing on all the most recent scholarship to give a vigorous, intelligent and absorbing account of one of the great movements of the Middle Ages.

LC Classification NumberD157.T89 2006