The Crusades: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Crusades, credited to George William Cox, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Crusades by George William Cox. Read in English by Pamela Nagami The Crusades were a series of religious wars fought between 1096 and 1272 to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule. According to the Latin Church, Crusaders were penitent pilgrims whose sins were forgiven. British historian, George Cox, writes of the churchmen, great and small, who inspired the Crusades, of the warriors who left families and lands behind, of the wily Venetian merchants and Byzantine emperors who exploited the knights, and of the valor of the Saracens. Here are accounts of sublime sacrifice and bestial ferocity, of dynastic conflict within the Crusader States, of sieges, starvation, pestilence, and ambush, and of the clash and interpenetration of two cultures. - Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Crusades
• Author credits: George William Cox
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 7:35:43

Catalogue topics

• crusades
• Richard the Lionheart
• frederick barbarossa
• normans
• philip augustus
• henry ii
• seljuk turks
• gregory vii

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Ch. 1: Causes Leading to the Crusades, Pt. 1 — 17:12
2. 02 - Ch. 1: Causes Leading to the Crusades, Pt. 2 — 19:37
3. 03 - Ch. 2: The Council of Clermont, Pt. 1 — 24:57
4. 04 - Ch. 2: The Council of Clermont, Pt. 2 — 15:33
5. 05 - Ch. 3: The First Crusade, Pt. 1 — 18:32
6. 06 - Ch. 3: The First Crusade, Pt. 2 — 17:08
7. 07 - Ch. 3: The First Crusade, Pt. 3 — 19:41
8. 08 - Ch. 3: The First Crusade, Pt. 4 — 22:31
9. 09 - Ch. 4: The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem — 17:03
10. 10 - Ch. 5: The Second Crusade — 22:11
11. 11 - Ch. 6: The Loss of Jerusalem, Pt. 1 — 15:44
12. 12 - Ch. 6: The Loss of Jerusalem, Pt. 2 — 18:52
13. 13 - Ch. 7: The Third Crusade, Pt. 1 — 23:51
14. 14 - Ch. 7: The Third Crusade, Pt. 2 — 28:35
15. 15 - Ch. 8: The Fourth Crusade — 8:14
16. 16 - Ch. 9: The Fifth Crusade, Pt. 1 — 21:21
17. 17 - Ch. 9: The Fifth Crusade, Pt. 2 — 27:23
18. 18 - Ch. 10: The Latin Empire of Constantinople, Pt. 1 — 14:02
19. 19 - Ch. 10: The Latin Empire of Constantinople, Pt. 2 — 15:21
20. 20 - Ch. 11: The Sixth Crusade, Pt. 1 — 16:48
21. 21 - Ch. 11: The Sixth Crusade, Pt. 2 — 18:08
22. 22 - Ch. 12: The Seventh Crusade — 5:46
23. 23 - Ch. 13: The Eighth Crusade — 22:54
24. 24 - Ch. 14: The Ninth Crusade — 11:24

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