Destacamos de entre as recensões de livros do "New York Times" desta semana "Butchers and Saints" de Eric Ormsby do recente livro:
HOLY WARRIORS A Modern History of the Crusades
By Jonathan Phillips
Illustrated. 434 pp. Random House. $30
Um excerto da crítica:
The villains of history seem relatively easy to understand; however awful their deeds, their motives remain recognizable. But the good guys, those their contemporaries saw as heroes or saints, often puzzle and appall. They did the cruelest things for the loftiest of motives; they sang hymns as they waded through blood. Nowhere, perhaps, is this contradiction more apparent than in the history of the Crusades. When the victorious knights of the First Crusade finally stood in Jerusalem, on July 15, 1099, they were, in the words of the chronicler William of Tyre, “dripping with blood from head to foot.” They had massacred the populace. But in the same breath, William praised the “pious devotion . . . with which the pilgrims drew near to the holy places, the exultation of heart and happiness of spirit with which they kissed the memorials of the Lord’s sojourn on earth.”Para mais ler aqui.
2 comentários:
E porque não santos... apesar de carniceiros?!... Que bela maneira de ver a história de pernas para o ar ou pelo lado do avesso! Estrabismo exacerbado? Há cura... nos manuais dos bons autores ou na leccionação de acreditadas universidades, que em toda a parte as há. JCN
Será que nos encaminhamos para a substituição da história dos heróis pela saga dos carniceiros?!... Pobre juventude! JCN
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