{"product_id":"the-crusader-storm","title":"The Crusader Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the First Crusade to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem, this is the story how cultures collided and reshaped the medieval Middle East.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom their foundational era in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern world. In an era shaped by many conflicts, this was not simply a war between Christianity and Islam, but an epic contest among multiple rival empires, dynasties, and cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Crusader Storm\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds through a kaleidoscope of perspectives: a Byzantine renegade, a crusader princess, a Turkish matriarch, a young Arab nobleman, a Syriac archbishop, Saladin's leading commander, and the vizier of Egypt. Between them, information, technologies, and ideas--as well as weapons--crossed borders at astonishing speed as their societies fought, allied, and traded. Their entangled fates reshaped not only the Middle East, but the medieval world itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on sources from Arabic, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Latin, and Hebrew traditions, Nicholas Morton's enthralling panorama transforms our understanding of the Crusades, revealing these wars not as a single clash of faiths, but as a dynamic era of war, commerce, innovation, and exchange that defined the course of history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":67625493463408,"sku":"9798897102228","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_64b794a3-18e2-44b9-9971-48aee0b741d1.jpg?v=1791055167","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/the-crusader-storm","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}