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Chargement... Soldiers of the Faith: Crusaders and Moslems at War (édition 2005)par Ronald C. Finucane (Auteur)
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First published in 1983, this new paperback makes Ronald Finucane's study of the crusades available once more. Focusing more on the social history of the crusades rather than events, he describes the social make-up of the crusading forces, their hardships, conditions, disputes, bravery, recruitment, financing of the wars and life for those left behind. He also devotes much of the book to religious ideology, asking why the crusades took place and why they eventually declined. Although the jacket blurb states that little has been written about crusading from the point of view of the actual participants' (presumably referring to scholarship up to 1983), more recent publications have addressed this subject. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The book's 212 pages were just about enough for me, so I will also give Finucane credit for knowing how much detail to include. He illustrates the ways in which, especially, the later Crusades became money-making schemes for the Papacy, the ways in which failure, in the longterm, was assured by the European nobles' rivalries between each other, the reasons why common folk would have signed on to go (from a hope of immediate entrance to heaven to a desire for plunder to a wish to get out from under debts and the drudgery their lives) and the horrors and depravations, not to mention the very high risk of sudden death, that the Crusaders, both high-born and low, were letting themselves in for.
Finucane was a British historian who died in 2009. Here is an obituary: https://www.oakland.edu/history/faculty-staff/ronald-c-finucane/ ( )