Crusaders: School guide. Shpakovsky V.O.

What do we know about crusaders? In the word “crusader”, a knight in the armor on a horse, with a shield and a sword, in a cloak with an image of a cross, appears before a mental gaze. Such we see crusaders in numerous films, they appear before us on the pages of novels. But films and novels, even the best, are not a real story. Rather, let's say this: this is a story seen and transformed by an artist - a writer, a filmmaker. In order to get a more objective idea of ​​the past, you need to turn not to films, but to historical documents, historical books.

We will tell on the pages of this book about crusaders and crusades without artistic embellishment. We will try to understand who they were, these warriors in metal. What attracted them into distant campaigns, known in history under the name of the Crusades.