
Fighting for the Faith: The Many Fronts of Crusade & Jihad 1000-1500 AD
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 1844156141 / Publisher: Pen and Sword Military, September 2007
Presents the history of medieval religious warfare. This work includes a graphic account of Crusade and Jihad throughout the medieval world. It gives an analysis of the organization and tactics of Christian and Muslim armies. It also offers an insight into the development of tactics and the weaponry used.
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Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the medieval period is often seen in the narrow context of the battle for the Holy Land. Other points of conflict tend to be ignored. But, as David Nicolle's thought provoking survey shows, religions clashed across the medieval world - in the Mediterranean and the Therian peninsula, in the Near East, in Central Asia, India, the Balkans, Anatolia, Russia, the Baltic and Africa. Over 500 years, the struggle in reach theatre of conflict had its own character - methods of warfare differed and developed in different ways and were influenced by local traditions and circumstances. And these campaigns were not waged solely against Christian or Islamic enemies, but against pagan, non-Christian or non-Islamic peoples. As he tells the story of Crusade and Jihad, and describes the organization and tactics of the armies involved, David Nicolle opens up a new understanding of the phenomenon of holy war.
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