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Chronicles of the Crusades |
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Jean de Joinville - Author
Geffroy de Villehardouin - Author
Caroline Smith - Translator
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| Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 384 pages | ISBN 9780140449983 | 31 Mar 2009 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages
Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western perspective. Villehardouin’s Conquest of Constantinople, distinguished by its simplicity and lucidity, recounts the controversial Fourth Crusade, which descended into an all-out attack on the E astern Christians of Byzantium. In Life of Saint Louis, Joinville draws on his close attachment to King Louis IX of France to recall his campaigning in the Holy Land. Together these narratives comprise a fascinating window on events that, for all their remoteness, offer startling similarities to our own age.
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