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In this Conflicted Conversation, Nicholas Morton discusses his new book The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East (amzn.eu/d/03htQGDj).
Associate Professor in History at Nottingham Trent University, Nicholas reframes the Crusades as one part of a much larger transformation of the medieval Middle East, driven above all by Seljuk-Turkmen expansion, Byzantine contraction, Fatimid decline and the fragmentation of political power.
Nicholas explains:
• The Seljuk-Turkmen transformation of the medieval Middle East
• Why the Crusades were not the region’s main event
• Dandanqan, nomadic warfare and the rise of Seljuk power
• Abbasids, Fatimids and fragmented government before the First Crusade
• Manzikert, Byzantine civil war and the Turkish conquest of Anatolia
• Frankish-Turkish rivalry, alliances and shared warrior culture
• Crusader violence and Christianity’s uneasy relationship with holy war
• Nizari Ismailis, Seljuk civil wars and competing Muslim priorities
• Damascus and Byzantium as key powers in Crusader geopolitics
• The Middle East as a crossroads of trade, ideas and cultural exchange
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