A History of the Crusades I av Steven Runciman

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<p><b>The first volume of Steven Runciman''s classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades</b><br><br>''On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel''<br><br>An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman''s <i>A History of the Crusades</i> overturned the traditional view of the Crusades as a romantic Christian adventure, and instead shifted the focus of the story to the East. With verve and drama, volume one of Runciman''s trilogy tells the story of the First Crusade - from its unlikely beginnings in pilgrimage to the horrors of the siege of Jerusalem and the carving out of new territory on the edge of the eastern Mediterranean.<br><br>''Without question one of the major feats of contemporary historical writing'' <i>The New York Times</i><br><br>''The historian whose magisterial works transformed our understanding of Byzantium, the medieval church and the crusades'' <i>Guardian</i></p>