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Sacred Nature
How we can recover our bond with the natural world
2024 || Paperback || Karen Armstrong || Vintage Publishing
Holy War
he Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
2001 || Paperback || Karen Armstrong || Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God," skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name of piety. And, as Armstron...