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The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked: 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. Their actions raise a host of compelling questions about the nature of medieval society.How to Plan a Crusade is remarkably illuminating on the diplomacy, communications, propaganda, use of mass media, medical care, equipment, voyages, money, weapons, wills, ransoms, animals, and the power of prayer during this dynamic era. It brings to life an extraordinary period of history in a new and surprising way.

Using these much later sources, all subsequent historians up to the present day have fallen into the same trap of following propaganda from a much later period to explain events that were understood quite differently by contemporaries. číst celé

A story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story, that shaped the Christian and Muslim worlds for centuries,... číst celé

This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody... číst celé

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.

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders číst celé

The Crusades were one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. But were they motivated by spiritual reward or by greed? Were they an early experiment in European colonialism? How were they organized? With customary flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman picks his way... číst celé

The fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an exhausted army of Western European soldiers was one of the extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour and the beginning of what proved to be a futile and abortive attempt to implant a new... číst celé

Významný oxfordský historik nabízí ve svých souborných dějinách tzv. klasických křížových výprav doby vrcholného středověku širokou škálu možných přístupů k tomuto fenoménu. Autor ukazuje, jak se v průběhu 200 let proměnila myšlenka kruciát, uvedená v život na koncilu v Clermontu papežem Urbanem II., jež se však postupně stala jedním z kontroverzní a také hojně kritizovaných nástrojů boje proti jinověrcům, kacířům i oponentům církve, mimo jiné i husitům. Zároveň je však kniha i zprávou o střetávání kultury latinské Evropy se světem řeckým, arabským, tureckým a arménským, který se odehrával na území dodnes politicky neklidného Blízkého východu a sousedních regionů. Knihu doplňují přehledné tabulky panovníků a vládců, podrobné mapy a obrazová příloha. Nový pohled na velmi kontroverzní období středověké Evropy, na křížové války, od významného oxfordského historika. Autor poskytuje detailní historii křížových výprav, v nečekaných a širokých souvislostech založených na nejnovějších výzkumech a stupni historického poznání. Cíle křižáků, původně se odvíjející do osvobození Svatého města Jeruzaléma z rukou nevěřících se postupně stanou bojem proti bezvěrcům či jinověrcům na mnoha frontách, včetně českých husitů.