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. (7 hr 35 min)
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Will Riddle
Pamela Nagami is absolutely the best reader on librivox. thank you Pamela!!
Good Synopsis
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!
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Mark
Read well. My mother read this in college, I'm 54, and I'm listening to it.