The Crusades

 

The Crusades

Author: Zoé Oldenbourg

Translated from French by Anne Carter

This edition:

Orion Publishing Group LTD, 1998

ISBN: 0-297-84268-4

Format: Medium size, soft cover

650 Pages including Genealogical Tables, Chronology Notes, Bibliography, Maps and Index

32 Pages of Plates/Photographs/Illustrations

Condition:

This second hand book is in very good condition. There is a soft cover ‘spine crease’ on the spine where the book as been opened (see photo) and there is a small mark on the outer side of the pages (see photo) but is otherwise in good condition.

from the back cover:

“This is the story of a great adventure, told by Zoe Oldenbourg in a style that combines the historian’s accuracy with the novelist’s understanding.

The Crusades as she describes them were not simply a religious phenomenon, nor were they motivated by pure aggression. This was an age which gave birth to an emotional climate which led people from all walks of life – rich and poor, saints and sinners – to leave their homes and follow the unattainable ideal of a heavenly Jerusalem here on earth. The first three – and greatest – crusades, organized between 1095 and 1192, gave rise to a particular concept of glory which contributed more than a little to the formation of European civilisation.

Zoe Oldenbourg was born in St Petersburg in 1916, settled in France and was educated at the Lycee Moliere and the Sorbonne in Paris. The author of a number of outstanding historical novels, including The World is Not Enough and The Cornerstone which won the Prix Femina in 1953, her historical works include Massacre at Montsegur (which was reissued by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1997). The Crusades was first published in English in 1996.”