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Loading... Defender of Jerusalem: A Biographical Novel of Balian D'Ibelin (Balian d'Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem)by Helena P Schrader
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The Christian kingdom of Jerusalem is under siege. The charismatic Kurdish leader, Salah ad-Din, has succeeded in uniting Shiite Egypt with Sunnite Syria and has now declared jihad against the Christian kingdom. While King Baldwin IV struggles to defend his kingdom from the external threat despite the increasing ravages of leprosy, the struggle for the succession threatens to tear the kingdom apart from the inside. In the high-stakes game, one man stands out for his loyalty to the dying king, the kingdom, and Christianity itself. That man is Balian d'Ibelin. This is the second book in a three-part biographical novel about Balian d'Ibelin, who defended Jerusalem against Salah ad-Din in 1187. The first book in the series, Knight of Jerusalem, was a finalist for the 2014 Chaucer Award for Historical Fiction and a B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree. No library descriptions found. |
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The abrupt transitions that distracted before are fewer - the politics, battles, and alliances are center stage as before but bcs this is a work of historical biography with an emphasis on the history these events and their aftermath take the characters & their strongholds in new directions .
The horses, the equipment of the time, and the geography are all so well handled by the author that the reader is immersed in past with a feeling of practical familiarity rather than an artificial alien wonder - and here is the wordsmith's truest strength in making the past inhabitable for today's reader - commendable . (