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Steven Runciman A History of the Crusades I

The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

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Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2016

Paperback

336

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289819

978-0-14-198550-3

0-14-198550-X

Crusades

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The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel'An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of the Crusades as a romantic Christian adventure, and instead shifted the focus of the story to the East. With verve and drama, volume one of Runciman's trilogy tells the story of the First Crusade - from its unlikely beginnings in pilgrimage to the horrors of the siege of Jerusalem and the carving out of new territory on the edge of the eastern Mediterranean.

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