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Overview
Very nice and tight , edges a tight and firm without wear. No jacket
Description
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 to
them. 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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