[L'épopée des croisades]
Year:
2002
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Orion Press
Year of publication:
1970
Pages:
280
Moral assessment:
Type: Thought
Nothing inappropriate.
Requires prior general knowledge of the subject.
Readers with knowledgeable about the subject matter.
Contains doctrinal errors of some importance.
Whilst not being explicitly against the faith, the general approach or its main points are ambiguous or opposed to the Church’s teachings.
Incompatible with Catholic doctrine.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
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After publishing his monumental and prestigious History of the Crusades and the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, in three volumes, René Grousset wrote in 1936 this Epic of the Crusades, a synthesis for a wider public, which also became a classic. Every line is precious. René Grousset guides us through the preaching of Pope Urban II in Clermont - November 1095 - to the 28th of May 1291, which saw 200,000 men of the Sultan El Ashraf Khalil destroy the city of Saint John of Acre, the last bastion of what had been the Frankish kingdom of the East.
He relates with an admirable clarity, concision and quality of style the nine crusades that took place during these two extraordinary centuries in the history of the Christian West and of Islam.
Author: François Beauclair, France
Update on: Mar 2023