Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology
by
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In 1098, three years into the First Crusade and after a brutal eight-month siege, the Franks captured the city of Antioch. Two days later, Muslim forces arrived with a relief army, and the victors became the besieged. Exhausted and ravaged by illness and hunger, the Franks were exhorted by their religious...