Crusaders: Full History. Jones D.

The detailed story of the Crusades, told by the author of the bestsellers “Templars” and “Plantagnets” by Dan Jones. For more than a thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by a leap, sometimes in the world, and sometimes at war. But when in 1099 the Christian armies captured Jerusalem, the most infamous period of the confrontation of the two religions began. Expanding the usual time frame, Jones turns to the origins of the Christian Muslim relations in theVII century and traces the influence of the Crusades to the present day. He expands the geography of events, bringing the reader to Spain, North Africa, to the south of France, to the Baltic countries, where the so -called enemies of the Church also lived.

telling the stories of individual participants in the Crusades, Jones shows these centuries of conflict not only from the standpoint of the papes and kings, but also the eyes of the Arabosicilian poet, the Byzantine princess, the Sunni scientist, the Shiite vizier, the Mongolian military leader, as well as the simple Christian monks.