How to Plan a Crusade
Author: Tyerman, Christopher
ISBN: 9780241954652
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 432
Dimensions: 195mm x 127mm x 28mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle Ages
In this highly original and enjoyable book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and marched off to a highly uncertain future in the Holy Land and elsewhere have never been sufficiently understood. How to Plan a Crusade is fascinating on diplomacy, communications, propaganda, the use of mass media, medical care, equipment, voyages, money, weapons, credit, wills, ransoms, animals, and the power of prayer. It brings to life an extraordinary era in a novel and surprising way.
ISBN: 9780241954652
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 432
Dimensions: 195mm x 127mm x 28mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle Ages
In this highly original and enjoyable book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and marched off to a highly uncertain future in the Holy Land and elsewhere have never been sufficiently understood. How to Plan a Crusade is fascinating on diplomacy, communications, propaganda, the use of mass media, medical care, equipment, voyages, money, weapons, credit, wills, ransoms, animals, and the power of prayer. It brings to life an extraordinary era in a novel and surprising way.
