ANST - Deus lo volt ... was: Courtesy Crusade

[j'lynn yeates]

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what with the thread on "courtesy crusasdes" (imnsho: bad idea) and
the folk bringing up the negative issues connected to any "crusade",
thoght i would share a new book that i just discovered
(synchronicity) ...

Deus lo volt! Chronicle of the Crusades" by Evan S. Connell

"A masterly novelist re-creates the medieval campaigns in all their
depravity, faith and gore. ..." 

"... Why is it that new centuries and millenniums seem to bring out a
thirst for moral certitudes, for struggles to the death between the
forces of good and evil? ... "

"... "Deus lo volt!" almost spookily reproduces, from within, the
particular sensibility -- spiritual, cognitive, literary -- of a
particular moment in history. In this case, the events unfold
starting in 1096, when Pope Urban launches the crusades to free
Jerusalem from the "infidels, ... " 

" ... The result is something of a tour de force: a meticulous
re-creation of the style and technique of medieval chronicles that
speaks powerfully to the contemporary new historicist creed that
fictions can be archives -- and archives, fiction. That said, "Deus
lo volt!" is also one seriously tough read. The Reading Group Guide
for the book -- available at bookstores or by phoning (800) 242-7737
- -- includes maps, genealogies and a timeline, which are sure to come
in handy for those readers not gifted with a superhuman memory for
seemingly countless names, battles, itineraries and intricate,
shifting alliances. The book is likewise crammed with material best
avoided over one's morning latte and scone: vanquished fighters being
led about by their intestines, roasted on spits and splattered with
various manner of bodily effluvia ..."
 
By Marion Lignana Rosenberg, Salon EZine

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/06/07/connell/index.html 

... all in all sounds like a good read for the historically inclined.
 from the initila description, just the "readers guide" to the book
sounds like something any medieval scholor could use in their librray

'wolf
 

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