Название: The Crusades Uncovered
Автор: Adrian Boas
Издательство: Arc Humanities Press
Год: 2022
Страниц: 112
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB
Adrian Boas, an archaeologist with four decades' experience in the field, takes a fresh approach to investigating the experiences of crusaders, pilgrims, and settlers in the crusader states during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The book opens up the experience of medieval travel and crusading by drawing on personal reflection and comparison with contemporary events. Topics covered include wonderment at the strangeness of the East, adjusting to life in the Levant, the horrors of warfare, the drama of fortress and battlefield, and the theatrical beauty of religious architecture, together with new perceptions of a selection of characters known and less-known. During the First Crusade, when, after a prolonged siege the crusader army occupied the city of Antioch, the Christians in turn found themselves besieged by a vast Muslim army under the leadership of Kherboga, the governor of Mosul. Fear and fatalism descended on the crusader camp, but with the miraculous discovery, in one of the city churches, of what was claimed to be the Holy Lance (the lance that pierced Jesus on the cross) the crusaders regained their conviction that God was on their side. With renewed courage they attacked the besieging enemy, and then something even more remarkable occurred.
