God's War

A New History of the Crusades

Christopher Tyerman

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Penguin
04 October 2007

History

14,000 hardcovers sold to date, including 9,000 in the UK Trade

The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story, that fundamentally shaped the Christian and Muslim worlds for two centuries, until the last Crusader castles were finally expunged. The energy and commitment that sent army after army into the eastern Mediterranean also led to the invasion and conversion of Central and Baltic Europe, Spain, Portugal, the destruction of the Cathars in Provence and the settlement of America. Told with great verve and authority, God's War is the definitive account of a fascinating but also horrifying story.

'We are still living with the images and legends of the crusades...

Tyerman tells us how the Church set about preaching the crusades, exploiting the perennial pessimism and guilt of the European nobility of the Middle Ages.

He shows how crusading ideology penetrated the religious sensibility of the period, as well as its secular fiction and poetry...

Of all the modern histories of the crusades it is the shrewdest, the most reliable and the most complete.' - The Spectator

By: Christopher Tyerman
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 45mm
Weight: 709g
ISBN: 9780140269802
ISBN 10: 0140269800
Pages: 1040
Publication Date: 04 October 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Tyerman is a Fellow in History at Hertfod College, Oxford, and a Lecturer in Medieval History at New College, Oxford. He is the author of England and the Crusades.

Reviews for God's War: A New History of the Crusades

Christopher Tyerman...has written a tome that...draws on the most recent scholarship and offers fresh insights, demolishing myths galore.--A. G. Noorani Frontline (05/04/2007)