Format: Hardback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9782840481621
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2008
Imprint: Heimdal
Illustrations: highly illustrated in colour
Description:
In the Medieval period, the idea of the crusade (or holy war/jihad) gained favor as a way firstly of freeing the Holy Land from Muslim control, it then degenerated into a justification for imposing western domination in Asia Minor. Crusades, therefore, always took place away from western Europe. However, in 1209, for the first time on Catholic Christian soil, a crusade was undertaken which lasted for over 30 years in southern France, with Simon de Montfort at its head.