From the best-selling author of Son of the Morning Star and Mrs. Bridge comes a magisterial tale of a great and terrible campaign, recounting one soldier's experiences of the defining war of Christendom. God wills it! The year is 1095 and the most prominent leaders of the Christian world are assembled in a meadow in France. Deus lo volt! This cry is taken up, echoes forth, is carried on. The Crusades have started, and wave after wave of Christian pilgrims rush to assault the growing power of Muslims in the Holy Land. Two centuries long, it will become the defining war of the Western world.
Magnificent stuff. Readers who have already been captivated by Connell's departures from conventional fictional form will be eager to follow him down this curious and remarkable book's intricate, pristine, and illuminating path. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
As presented by Connell, the medieval mind is a promiscuous mix of piety and brutality… Connell's antiquarian ‘forgery,' which is in the line of novels like Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, is a great feat of historical empathy. -Publishers Weekly
Author Biography: Evan S. Connell-long recognized as one of the most important literary voices of the latter part of the century- is author of seventeen books, including the best-selling Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge, and Son of the Morning Star. He recently won the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Deus lo Volt the Chronicle of the Crusades

Evan S. Connell

Basic Civitas Books

Counterpoint Press

Catapult

United States, United States of America

March 20, 2001

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"The Crusades have begun. Wave upon wave of Christian pilgrims rush to assault the growing power of Moslems in the Holy Lands. Battles will continue for the next two hundred years. Every able man becomes a soldier of the Cross. When a man is prevented by old age or ill health, he sends his son. Women, too, join to fight alongside their husbands and fathers. Two centuries long, this common cause is the defining war of what was becoming the spirit of the Western world.".
"The author has commented, "I think of this as a book about the Crusades, not an 'historical novel' - a term that suggests imaginary experiences and unlikely conversations. Monologues and dialogues in this book are paraphrased or condensed from those in medieval documents. Every meeting, every conversation, every triumph or defeat, no matter how small, was recorded centuries ago.""--BOOK JACKET.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1180 my father's, Geoffrey, died at the siege of Acre.

462 pages : 23 cm
Originally published: 2000

2023-06-28