The Crusades
George William Cox
Read by Pamela Nagami
The Crusades were a series of religious wars fought between 1096 and 1272 to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule. According to the Latin Church, Crusaders were penitent pilgrims whose sins were forgiven. British historian, George Cox, writes of the churchmen, great and small, who inspired the Crusades, of the warriors who left families and lands behind, of the wily Venetian merchants and Byzantine emperors who exploited the knights, and of the valor of the Saracens. Here are accounts of sublime sacrifice and bestial ferocity, of dynastic conflict within the Crusader States, of sieges, starvation, pestilence, and ambush, and of the clash and interpenetration of two cultures. - Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.
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Kyle
Cox provides a critical view of an ugly chapter in Western History. The world of Catholic Christendom was briefly politically united enough to retake the Holy Land. But the Crusaders behavior and petty rivalries would hamstring Christian dominance in the Biblical Holy Land. Pam as always provides great narration!
Will Riddle
Pamela Nagami is absolutely the best reader on librivox. thank you Pamela!!
Shockingly Awful!!!!! More blood libel than History!!
Jeremiah Gottwaldt
This book displays the typical unscientific anti-catholic bias of the protestant historians of the 18th and 19th century as well as their typical vitriolic condescension for anything and everything coming out of the middle ages but this author goes WAY beyond by actually making up stories about the supposed, cruelty, savagery and barbarism of the Crusaders that have no basis whatsoever in any of the primary sources. The author spends more time describing with macabre glee the most grotesque levels of violence than he describes any of the military or logistical details of the military campaigns or the political causes and effects of what is going on. The author invents stories about Godfrey of Bouillon killing children with his own hands and spends more time on them than he does on any historical information about Godfrey! If this is what people in the Anglo-phone world are taught about the Crusades it's no wonder they have such a warped understanding of them. This is more fiction than history.
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Mark Gordon
Read well. My mother read this in college, I'm 54, and I'm listening to it.
USEFUL BOOK AND AN EXCELLENT READER. George Kwayfaty.
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