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Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe

6 best books like Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe (Peter Heather): The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Chronicles of the Crusades, The Hare, How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, The First Crusade: A New History, Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
AuthorAmin Maalouf
ISBN0805208984
In our society the word crusade has been largely divorced from its origins in a European invasion of the Middle East, so much so that our previous president probably didn't recognize how inflammatory this statement was.

This book is a solid reminder that there were two sides, and often more,...
Chronicles of the Crusades
AuthorJean de Joinville
ISBN0140441247
Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages translated by Margaret R. B. Shaw

Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western perspective. Villehardouin's Conquest...
The Hare
AuthorCésar Aira
ISBN1852422912
An English naturalist roams the Argentine pampas in search of the most rare and elusive of animals: the Legibrian Hare. The Indians he meets report sightings of the hare but on investigation, Clarke finds in these sightings more than meets the eye. The Hare, the first novel by C?sar Aira to be translated...
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
ISBN0300137192
A major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar

In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa,...
The First Crusade: A New History
AuthorThomas Asbridge
ISBN0195189051
On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afire. Some 100,000 men, from knights to paupers, took up the call--the largest mobilization of manpower since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Now, in The...
Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
AuthorKaren Armstrong
ISBN0385721404
Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.

In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars...
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