Ronald C. Finucane (1939–2009)
Autore di Soldiers of the Faith: Crusaders and Moslems at War
Sull'Autore
Opere di Ronald C. Finucane
Ghosts: appearances of the dead & cultural transformation (1984) — Autore, alcune edizioni — 52 copie
Women of the Crusades 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1939-08-10
- Data di morte
- 2009-09-01
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di residenza
- Auburn Hills, Michican, USA
- Attività lavorative
- historian
professor (History) - Organizzazioni
- Oakland University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Oakland University (Distinguished Professor, Research Excellence Award)
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 207
- Popolarità
- #106,920
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 19
- Lingue
- 2
The book's 212 pages were just about enough for me, so I will also give Finucane credit for knowing how much detail to include. He illustrates the ways in which, especially, the later Crusades became money-making schemes for the Papacy, the ways in which failure, in the longterm, was assured by the European nobles' rivalries between each other, the reasons why common folk would have signed on to go (from a hope of immediate entrance to heaven to a desire for plunder to a wish to get out from under debts and the drudgery their lives) and the horrors and depravations, not to mention the very high risk of sudden death, that the Crusaders, both high-born and low, were letting themselves in for.
Finucane was a British historian who died in 2009. Here is an obituary: https://www.oakland.edu/history/faculty-staff/ronald-c-finucane/… (altro)