Los cruzados

"Take the path to obtain the remission of your sins, secure in the indestructible glory of the Sacred Kingdom." These were the famous words that began one of the most important events in the history of Europe. It was 1095: Jerusalem had been in Muslim hands for hundreds of years and the Christians of the East were vilified by the followers of Muhammad. After centuries of Islamic domination, the preaching of Urban II marked the beginning of the religious wars for the Holy Places: the crusades. The fervor unleashed at Clermont and the promise of salvation led thousands of princes and monarchs of the West, but also ordinary pious Christians and even entire families to take up the cross and participate in the bloody struggles against the enemies of Christ that would continue. for two centuries and would cover three continents. In The Crusaders, Dan Jones, one of the historians who best knows the period, offers us the fascinating account of medieval wars whose effects are still felt today. These pages parade men and women, Christians from the East and the West, Sunnis, Shiites, Arabs, Jews, Berbers, Mongols and even Vikings who, in one way or another, were protagonists of these conflicts. Never before has the time of the Crusades been portrayed in such a vivid, scholarly and detailed manner.