{"product_id":"2026200016169-secondhand-chronicles-of-the-crusades","title":"Chronicles Of The Crusades","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew historical documents capture the drama, devotion, and brutality of medieval holy war with the vivid immediacy of Chronicles of the Crusades, a landmark work that binds together two distinct firsthand accounts of the Crusading era. Geoffrey de Villehardouin, a knight and marshal of Champagne, presents a gripping eyewitness account of the catastrophic Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) and the shocking sack of Constantinople, while Jean de Joinville, seneschal of Champagne and intimate companion of King Louis IX, chronicles the ill-fated Seventh Crusade with a warmth and personal candor that brings the saintly French king to vivid, human life.\n\nTogether, these two narratives form an irreplaceable primary record of medieval Christendom at its most fervent and most flawed, offering modern readers an unfiltered window into the political machinations, military disasters, and profound personal faith that defined an age. Villehardouin writes with the cool precision of a military strategist, while Joinville's prose radiates the tenderness of a loyal servant and true believer — a contrast that makes the volume as rich in literary texture as it is in historical substance. Translated and introduced by M.R.B. Shaw for the Penguin Classics series, this edition remains one of the most accessible and authoritative renderings of these texts in the English language. For anyone who wishes to understand the medieval mind — its courage, its contradictions, and its consuming hunger for the divine — these chronicles issue an invitation that is impossible to refuse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342776115419,"sku":"2026200016169-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3e04a8e7-e3f4-48b9-ad14-b8f948f72081.png?v=1790049192","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016169-secondhand-chronicles-of-the-crusades","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}