First Crusade, under blood's vote

Synopsis

First Crusade, under blood's vote (Negotium Cruces, Chronicle of Crusades) First crusade: Under the blood vote, it's the first novel of the epic series "Negotium Cruces." Chronicle of the Crusades, a work designed as a great literary chronicle of the crusade, narrated from the mindset, faith and shadows of the medieval world. The first book relates the birth of the crusade as an unprecedented spiritual, political and military event. From corruption and violence that have torn from Western Christianity to an outburst of penitential fervour, from the papal call that promises redemption to endless marches, siege, hunger and blood shed in the East. It's not a light epoxy but an enterprise born of fear of divine punishment and longing for salvation. The narrative advances as a chronicle transmitted by clerics and witnesses of war: serious, serious and incarnated in the facts. Knights, peasants, princes and fanatics march together under oath and face up to their own weaknesses, ambitions and sins. Each victory already contains the seed of its ruin. Each oath requires a price that isn't all ready to pay. First crusade: Under the vote of blood, a series that does not judge from a modern distance but speaks from within the eleventh century, showing the crusade as those who have been through it have been told: just war and armed penance, promised glory and possible condemnation, fiery faith and violence without return. That book is the beginning of a bigger chronicle, where every crusade will be narrated as a link to a tragic chain: Foundational, Epic and marked by the certainty that every human enterprise, even that dedicated to God, is intended to pay its price in blood and souls.