Holy War by Karen Armstrong
The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
A lucid reexamination of the medieval Crusades that situates them in their complex political, social and religious contexts and traces how Western and Islamic narratives of holy war were shaped and reshaped over centuries; the book explores the motives of popes, princes and warriors, the interplay of piety and power, and the cultural exchanges and brutalities that followed, arguing that the Crusades’ legacy has been repeatedly invoked to justify later conflicts and misunderstandings, and urging a historically informed perspective to help disentangle modern politics from distorted memories of sacred violence.
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