God Wills It!: Understanding the Crusades
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Издательство: Recorded Books
Автор: Professor Thomas F. Madden
Год: 2008
Формат: mp,VBR
Размер: 212 Mb
Язык: English
Продолжительность: 8 hours and 14 mins
As late as 1518, plans were laid by Pope Leo X and the monarchs of Europe to set aside their internal quarrels and once more embark on a holy crusade to wrest the Middle East from the Ottoman Turks. Finding accord and even enthusiasm for the enterprise, all was on course for a multiyear military campaign to push east from North Africa through Egypt and south through the Balkans to squeeze the Turks in a pincer movement and finally oust the Muslims from the Holy Land. The great plan, however, died when Europe was once again plunged into internal strife with the death of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, who had been a leader for the crusade.