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Focusing particularly on the characters that drove this extraordinary campaign, and what drove them in turn, Tom Asbridge re-creates this fascinating period of history in a stunning narrative. Using the First Crusade as paradigm he then moves on to explore a range of themes and to challenge a number of assumptions -- among them the myth of well-armed crusader knights dominating the battlefield: in reality, poverty and starvation forced the knights of the First Crusade to chew dried pieces of leather and drink goats' blood for sustenance, while riding in to battle on oxen and donkeys. Compelling and enlightening in equal measure, and drawing on new research which has radically remoulded our understanding of the movement, THE FIRST CRUSADE is a major work by an outstanding young historian.
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'Although well-researched, the book wears its scholarship lightly and reads like a work of fiction . . . Fascinating and lively' -- Glasgow Herald
'Asbridge achieves vivid characterisation and gripping storytelling without sacrifice of scholarship' -- Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto
'Lucid and provocative' -- Professor Akbar S. Ahmed
'Nuanced and sophisticated . . . It is both exhilarating and disconcerting to be immersed in the sheer foreignness of the crusaders’ world' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Outstanding . . . One of the most distinguished books yet launched on the current wave of enthusiasm for history' -- Oxford Times
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'Asbridge achieves vivid characterisation and gripping storytelling without sacrifice of scholarship' -- Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto
'Lucid and provocative' -- Professor Akbar S. Ahmed
'Nuanced and sophisticated . . . It is both exhilarating and disconcerting to be immersed in the sheer foreignness of the crusaders’ world' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Outstanding . . . One of the most distinguished books yet launched on the current wave of enthusiasm for history' -- Oxford Times
Thomas Asbridge is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London. He is an acknowledged expert on the history of the crusades and the author of several books on the subject, although this is his first for a general audience.
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- PublisherFree Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0743220838
- ISBN 13 9780743220835
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