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Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin

Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin

Besant, Walter

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World HistoryIsrael & Palestine History

ISBN10: 9353700469
ISBN13: 9789353700461
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Jerusalem has been fought over, prayed over, and written into memory. Stones remember what we forget. In Walter Besant's vivid Victorian travel writing, the city's streets and sacred hills become a living map of belief, power, and survival. Part narrative history nonfiction, part on-the-ground witness, Besant traces Jerusalem city history from ancient Judea and Jerusalem through the splendour and anxiety of the Herod the Great reign, and onward into the medieval Holy Land of Saladin and crusader wars. He keeps the focus on place: walls, gates, temples, and the layered meanings that draw conquerors and pilgrims alike. Read it as Christian pilgrimage reading, or as a clear-eyed companion for anyone returning to the Crusades with fresh questions; it also serves as a thoughtful Holy Land study guide for students of religion, archaeology, and Middle East travel classics. As a crusades history reprint, it captures a late nineteenth-century sensibility at its best: energetic, observant, and intent on connecting monuments to the human stories that shaped them. Set down before mass tourism, his eye for detail makes the city legible: how faith is practised, how empires imprint themselves, how legends persist. For collectors, it is a window into how Victorians imagined the Holy City, with arguments still as atmosphere. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, in an unabridged classic edition worthy of the shelf.

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