Crusader Warfare Volume I: Byzantium, Western E. Nicolle<|

Bloomsbury

Crusader Warfare Volume IByzantium, Western Europe and the Battle for the Holy Land\nAuthor(s): David Nicolle\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Hambledon Continuum\nISBN-13: 9781847250308, 978-1847250308\nSynopsis\nThis book presents as many aspects as possible of warfare during the period of the crusades within all the cultures most directly involved. To a large extent the current interest in the Crusades reflects the perceived threat of a so-called 'clash of civilisations'. While warnings of such a supposed clash in our own times are based upon a misunderstanding of the natures of both 'Western' and 'Islamic' civilisations, some commentators have looked to the medieval Crusades as an earlier example of such a clash. In reality they were no such thing. Instead the Crusades resulted from a remarkable variety of political, economic, cultural and religious factors. The Crusades, even excluding the Northern or Baltic Crusades, also involve.