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God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades

By Stark , Rodney

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Year
2009
ISBN
9780061942983, 0061582603, 9780061582608, 0061942987
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
587 kB (600695 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Church History;History;Christianity and other reliMedieval;Crusades;Islam;Christianity and other rel

Description

Greedy barbarians in armor? -- Muslim invaders -- Christendom strikes back -- Western "ignorance" versus Eastern "culture" -- Pilgrimage and persecution -- Enlisting crusaders -- Going East -- Bloody victories -- The crusader kingdoms -- The struggle to defend the kingdoms -- Crusades against Egypt -- Mission abandoned.;In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. Instead, Stark argues that the Crusades were the first military response to Muslim terrorist aggession.

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