Memoirs Of The Crusades

Memoirs of the Crusades (1933) by Villehardouin & De Joinville – Everyman’s Library Edition
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Two knights, two centuries, and enough piety, bloodshed, and political double-dealing to fill a holy war—Memoirs of the Crusades brings together the gripping first-hand accounts of two men who lived (and fought) through the madness of medieval Christendom’s most ambitious misadventures.

In this 1933 Everyman’s Library edition, you get not one but two epic narratives: Villehardouin’s sober and often self-congratulatory chronicle of the Fourth Crusade (spoiler: they never made it to Jerusalem), and De Joinville’s vivid and touching tale of the Seventh Crusade under the noble but hopelessly idealistic King Louis IX. From sieges and shipwrecks to saintly delusions and Saracen diplomacy, these memoirs are part battlefield dispatch, part medieval gossip column, and entirely enthralling.

Condition: Dust jacket missing in action (presumed captured), foxing on the first few pages, spine slightly wonky like a Crusader after a long campaign—but the words still march on.

Crappy Old Books: Worn, war-torn, and weirdly wonderful.

Has a plastic dust jacket cover, and inside a name stampe for a woman at the Training College at Saffron Walden and another name sticker.

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