A whole world was being changed. Two men born on the same day, an orphan and a king each play a critical role.The teeming world of the 13th century witnessed bright colors, banners fluttering against the sky above the lists at a tourney. Fair damsels with their long hair caught in cunning nets of gold thread, clad in silk and samite, velvet and ermine waved at bejeweled noblemen flaunting the arrogant insignias of their proud houses. A corps of sober monks clad in brown and black habits served the lordly bishops. And above all, the clean, bright gleam of a crusader's chain mail worn by nobles and knaves alike proclaimed that this society valued war above everything. This is a story of how crusaders turned their savagery on Christian and heathen alike. A war of the rich and powerful against the poor and lowly. How miserable serfs, wearing coarse jerkins smelling of dumb sweat, bound to their lord's service forever forced to labor on lands, which can never belong tothem. This was a time when nobles, secure in their castles and armor committed every barbarity imaginable. It was from the oppressed masses that Pietro di Donati, the son of a murdered blackmith sprang, to become a wealthy knight and to marry into one of the powerful families of Europe. This book was made into a movie.

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