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The Glory of the Crusades Paperback – September 1, 2014

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How can the Crusades be called glorious ? Our modern mindset says they were ugly wars of greed and religious intolerance a big reason why Christians and Muslims today can t coexist peacefully. Historian Steve Weidenkopf challenges this received narrative with The Glory of the Crusades. Drawing on the latest and most authentic medieval scholarship, he presents a compelling case for understanding the Crusades as they were when they happened: armed pilgrimages driven by a holy zeal to recover conquered Christian lands. Without whitewashing their failures and even crimes, he debunks the numerous myths about the Crusades that our secular culture uses as clubs to attack the Church. In place of these myths he offers men and women of faith and valor who pledged their lives for the honor of Christ s holy places. With a storyteller s gift, Weidenkopf relates the Crusades many dramas their heroes and villains, battles and sieges, intrigues and coincidences offering a vivid and engrossing account of events that, though centuries old, have profoundly affected the course of our world to the present day.
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This excellent book employs decades of scholarly research to show average readers what medieval historians have long known that popular culture s image of the Crusades has nothing at all to do with the events themselves. Catholics who cringe at the mention of the Crusades will find in this work a surprising and inspiring story of faith. --Thomas F. Madden Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University

Steve Weidenkopf explodes common myths about the Crusades and reveals the nobility and heroism of the Crusaders. This is the book to give to anyone who invokes the Crusades as a blot on the Churchs record. --Robert Spencer Author, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

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Steve Weidenkopf teaches Church history at the Christendom College Graduate School of Theology. He is the author of The Glory of the Crusades and the creator of the Epic video series on Church history. He is also a popular author and speaker on the Crusades and other historical subjects.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Catholic Answers Press (September 1, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 285 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 194166301X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941663011
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.8 x 8.4 inches
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Steve Weidenkopf is an Adjunct Professor at the Christendom College Graduate School of Theology in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the author of The Church and the Middle Ages: Cathedrals, Crusades, and the Papacy in Exile (2020), Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church (2019), The Real Story of Catholic History: Answering Twenty Centuries of Anti-Catholic Myths (2017), The Glory of the Crusades (2014), and The Reformation (2017): A Catholic Answers “20 Answers Series” booklet. His presentations on The Real Story of the Crusades, The Real Story of the Inquisition and The Real Story of the Reformation are available also from Catholic Answers.

Steve is the creator, co-author, and presenter of Epic: A Journey through Church History – a 20 session parish-based study published by Ascension Press (2009) and the author and presenter of The Early Church, a 10 session program on the first 500 years of Church history also available from Ascension Press (2012).

Steve has appeared as a guest to discuss Church History on numerous national Catholic radio and television programs including EWTN Live and Catholic Answers Live!

He served as the Director of the Office of Marriage & Family Life for the Archdiocese of Denver (2001 - 2004) and as an advisor to Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. and was an instructor at the Our Lady of the New Advent Catechetical Institute.

Steve is a member of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East - an international academic group dedicated to the field of crusading history and is also a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

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Dale wagner
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2024
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The book is informing on the crusades, good readying on what the crusades where about and what happen during that time.
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Matthew
5.0 out of 5 stars A Significant Work on the Crusades in Their Entirety
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015
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I just finished reading The Glory of the Crusades and I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in the Crusades, military history, military science, politics, economics, theology (Christian or islamic, especially) or sociology, though it only touches obliquely on some of these topics (economics and military science are barely relevant in the text, but can't be wholly divorced from the Crusades).

It's a marvelous book and is available in Kindle or bound formats. Its high quality is the result of three specific characteristics the author has bestowed upon this text: 1) flowing and easily comprehended language, 2) careful attention to detail in the scholarship (as exemplified by the bountiful citations provided) and 3) the quality of the speculative or circumstantial reasoning applied to the unknown elements in the histories.

This is one of those books that I wish I could just upload into every person's mind. Every time I picked it up I fought valiantly not to have to put it back down!
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Richard Mason
5.0 out of 5 stars An Great Apologetic in Support of a Necessary Quest.
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2016
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I just finished this book. It was a great read. It would appeal to both the casual and academic reader. The author has a smooth flow of words in his writing which is appealing for an academic. So many academic writers tend to be choppy in style, but not Weidenkopf. If you are a fan of the Crusades, as am I, then you will want to pick up this book and learn about the objective truth as it relates to the typically distorted approach to chronicling this movement. The Glory of the Crusades gives a great apologetic in support of an armed pilgrimage that was provoked and necessary. Thank you, Steve Weidenkopf for your hard work in producing such a gem. God Bless, all.
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Robert Schanhaar
4.0 out of 5 stars It includes the good, the bad and the ugly
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2015
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This book tells the history of the time as it was then not as we view it as today. It includes the good, the bad and the ugly, but with the understanding that was the way life was at that time every where. I sheds considerable light on what the Crusades were and why they took place. It dispels much of the exaggerated mythology surrounding the Crusades The world in Europe and the Middle East were quite different, lacking the fines of today. The same personality differences, dislikes, political jostling for power, and control, in other words we have the same political, social and human conduct problems today, not as crude by todays standards with a little more polish in conduct. An excellent book on an important time in history well worth reading.
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Sandra
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing! Couldn't put it down!
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2018
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Opened the book everything else stopped, could not put it down! So many books I've read on this subject, but you find all these resources in one place, telling the Facts good and bad is breathtaking!
Closing the book two thoughts come to mind:
the amazing faith and strength of these Warriors,
second how do you begin to tell others the truth when they've been embedded for so long with the myth?
Love the timeline at end!
Thank you for a wonderful Journey.
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speakttruth
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing detailed truth of the crusades
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2016
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Reading from many authors about the crusades this book details a much more intricate detail of how much the crusades were important to the holy land and the love of God. So many heroes, but poor decisions that thwarted victory and now to rediscover the truth on how the Catholic Church did nothing but try to save the holy land and Christendom in defense of misguided Muslims. Reading the brutality of those days and seeing that we cannot use modern sensibilities to view the past. Great read for the truth finally being exposed in defense of the Catholic Church.
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Joseph Pak
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2016
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Truly a must read for all students of history. Prof. Weidenkopf delivers a well organized document that will be in our classrooms and homes for many years to come. Recommend this book for those read other documents on Crusades as well as those only subscribed to sporadic and ill-informed rendition of what the Crusades were about.
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debau
5.0 out of 5 stars Ever Wonder What the Crusades Were About? Great book - for Christians and non-Christians alike.
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2016
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This book is informative and presented in an interesting way. It cleared up a lot of misconceptions I had from a lack of education about the historical events. While I did not think of it before I began reading, as I got into the book and learned, I found it especially timely given the issues with terrorism and extremism committed by people who often blame their Islamic faith. Loved the book.
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Graham O
5.0 out of 5 stars Truth
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2021
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History as written by historians is rarely neutral. We all bring our preconceptions to the table as authors and readers. But there is only one absolute truth.

Crusade history all too often revises the truth that this book clearly covers. They were not marauding, greedy Europeans intent on pillage and plunder but devout Christians who sacrificed much including their lives to RECOVER former Christian lands from the armies of Islam.

This book along with Rodney Starks "God's battalions" are a must to properly understand the armed pilgrimages of the crusades. Islam was encroaching on southern Europe and conquering lands with an aim to include Europe in the Dar al Islam. They had been occupying Spain from 711 AD to 1492 and tried unsuccessfully to conquer France before losing to Charles Martel at the Battle of Potiers (just south of PARIS France) in 732 AD. The first crusade was called by Pope Urban II in 1095 AD; so long after the Islamic invasion of Europe.

This book and the other mentioned correct the current, self hating western narratives.
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J.INTERNICOLA
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome and well researched work
Reviewed in Canada on August 5, 2019
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Excellent and well researched story of a noble, yet unfinished quest. Well worth the read. Puts many myths to rest.
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Paulo jacobina
5.0 out of 5 stars Vale a pena ser lido.
Reviewed in Brazil on August 29, 2017
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Este livro é muito bom. Ele reexplica a história das Cruzadas a partir de um ponto de vista diferente daquelas ideologias anticristãs que permeiam a historiografia oficial. Rico em documentação e em sustentação científica, é essencial para quem quer conhecer esta parte tão obscura da história da humanidade, com suas glórias e misérias, e desintoxicar-se, ao mesmo tempo, da propaganda anticatólica inserida em tantos relatos parciais sobre estes mesmos fatos.
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Silpa
5.0 out of 5 stars A balanced perspective reflecting the true purpose and spirit of Crusades
Reviewed in India on October 29, 2018
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The author goes back in time to understand the spirit of those who actually undertook the crusaders rather than judging it from a post-modern era perspective wherein all wars look evil and unjust. A must read for all Catholics so you can have a proper understanding of the crusades as a pious pilgrimage taken up by knights, soldiers as well peasents at the exhortation of the Pope and with the noble intention of reclaiming Christian territories from Islamic invaders.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in Canada on October 2, 2020
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