What are some good books about crusaders?

[Anonymous No.22050547]

Historical, fictional, speculative, or otherwise. I want to read about based holy warriors absolutely DUNKING on the servants of chaos and evil by the edge of the sword and faith in their deus. Doesn’t even have to be about the conflicts in Jerusalem or the Byzantine empire. The book can be in a totally fictional world - just so long as it has armored noble warriors that fight for a virtuous cause.

[Anonymous No.22050550]

Bakker
is
King

[Anonymous No.22050553]

>>22050547
Piranesi. Its not at all about crusaders but its a good book so I thought Id recommend it since it meets 50% of what you asked for :)

[Anonymous No.22050555]

>>22050553
What’s the other 50% about?

[Anonymous No.22050564]

>>22050550
Doesn’t this guy write thinly veiled scat and gay cuck smut?

[Anonymous No.22050567]

>>22050555
A man named Piranesi

[Anonymous No.22050572]

>>22050567
But who is Piranesi?

[Anonymous No.22050578]

>>22050572
Hah thats for you to discover :)

[Anonymous No.22050605]

>>22050553
>>22050567
>>22050578
I looked at the synopsis. Sorry Susanna, but I’m not going to read your book. Not enough crusaders.

[Anonymous No.22050618]

>>22050605
There is a king with a sword in it. I mean thats close enough, no? Kindly reconsider :)

[Anonymous No.22050653]

>>22050547
Fucking crusaders. Pack of murderous papist thugs

[Anonymous No.22050709]

>>22050653
If crusaders didn’t exist, Europe would’ve been brutalized by the Saracens, Mongols, or any number of other eastern invaders. Granted, no one army or cause is perfect and there were certainly atrocities committed, but on the whole, crusaders were the just defenders of Christendom and the west. Modern propaganda has distorted the common perception of them as warmongering zealots, when in reality there were a variety of orders with different purposes - most of which were focused on protection of Christian pilgrims or holy sites and defending eastern borders.

[Anonymous No.22050787]

>>22050709
That’s exactly like saying the US is merely defending itself by sending armies to far off lands that aren’t at war with them. How Kissinger-eque of you

The book I posted is more about the first crusade that put down the local Europeans for their wrong-think.

The institution of state corrupts with its power, causes war and destroys faiths. Notice how the separation of church and state has turned the church into a pussycat? Some will see that as a bad thing, I know, but at least it can be more true to itself, instead of taking on the role of murdering tyrant

[Anonymous No.22050832]

>>22050564
no
he writes KINO
>Then the madness fell away. Once again it was the pure thunder of the charge. The strange camaraderie of men bent to a single, fatal purpose. Hummocks, scrub, and the bones of the Vulgar Holy War’s dead rushed beneath. The wind bled through chain links, tousled Thunyeri braids and Tydonni crests. Bright banners slapped against the sky. The heathen, wicked and foul, drew closer, ever closer. One last storm of arrows, these ones almost horizontal to the ground, punching against shield and armour. Some were struck from their saddles. Tongue tips were bitten off in the concussion of the fall. The unhorsed arched across the turf, screamed and swatted at the sky. Wounded mounts danced in frothing circles nearby. The rest thundered on, over grasses, through patches of blooming milkwort waving in the wind. They couched their lances, twenty thousand men draped in great mail hauberks over thick felt, with coifs across their faces and helms that swept down to their cheeks, riding chargers caparisoned in mail or iron plates. The fear dissolved into drunken speed, into the momentum, became so mingled with exhilaration as to be indistinguishable from it. They were addicted to the charge, the Men of the Tusk. Everything focused into the glittering tip of a lance. The target nearer, nearer … The rumble of hooves and drums drowned their kinsmen’s song. They crashed through a thin screen of sumac … Saw eyes whiten in sudden terror. Then impact. The jarring splinter of wood as lances speared through shield, through armour. Suddenly the ground became still and solid beneath them, and the air rang with wails and shouts. Hands drew sword and axe. Everywhere figures grappled and hacked. Horses reared. Blades pitched blood into the sky. And the Kianene fell, undone by their ferocity, crumpling beneath northern hands, dying beneath pale faces and merciless blue eyes. The heathen recoiled from the slaughter—and fled.

[Anonymous No.22051320]

>>22050787
>Unrelated situations one millennium later
>Reddit spacing
>faggot syntax
GAY.

[Anonymous No.22051331]

>>22050547

[Anonymous No.22051555]

>>22050787
You can’t really compare the US-middleastern conflict with the crusades. The US is a totally separate continent involving itself in manufactured tensions that the CIA engineered for war profiteering; there is no major threat to US citizens. The crusades on the other hand were started in self defense against hordes of eastern invaders that attacked border cities, then eventually turned toward the protection of their acolytes from persecution and to keeping order in the holy land. Of course, power and wealth are always a motive for some, and this wealth was divided up among those who hungered for it and those whose motives were honest. Regardless, I have no doubts about the integrity in the hearts of the majority that went into those historical battles to defend their people. And while the events you describe in your pic related were terrible, you have to acknowledge the good too. I don’t disagree that awful things were perpetrated by the Catholic Church, but on the broader scale, they defended and preserved Europe from total annihilation.

I didn’t start this thread to argue political perspectives about historical crusaders or the church; I started it to talk about books with idealized holy warriors kicking ass because it’s fun.

[Anonymous No.22051576]

>>22051331
I’m too Christian to dress like a euphoric atheist, anon. Also, I don’t eat nearly enough to look like that. I wish I could gain some weight though. Having a high metabolism sometimes feels like a curse when you’re stuck in perpetual Auschwitz mode.