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Negotium Cruces

3-book series

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by Tolmarher Author

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Negotium CrucesThat's the chronicle of an age at which faith sewed onto the mantle as a red wound, and men were going to the Orient believing to carry with them the will of God, though they often only had their hunger, their fear, their ambition and their sins with them. From the clamor of Clermont to the walls of Jerusalem, from the fall of Edesa to the bitter shade of Damascus, from the disaster of Hattin to the fierce pulse between Ricardo Corzo de León and Saladino, this series goes through the great Crusades as an epoapiac of iron, powder and broken oath. Kings, potatoes, emperors, monks, knights, merchants, peasants and unnamed soldiers cross these pages under the same certainty: every promise made to the cross requires a price, and that price rarely paid by the guilty. There's no comfortable story about saints and villains. There are cities that have been burned, armies that have been broken under thirst, crowns that have been leaned to necessity, alliances with mistrust and victories that have been born and have been damaged by future ruin. The crusade lays up kingdoms but also condemns them. It opens up ways of penance but leaves beyond them fields covered with corpses. It promises salvation but forces men to look at what they become when they believe to fight for the eternal. Negotium CrucesIt's a historic series of war, faith, ambition and sacrifice. A dark and solemn chronicle about how long Europe and the East have been looking through the edge of a sword and have found that no holy town, no king or oath will be free from the judgment of history.

Tolmarher Author

Books in this series

3 books

Book 1

First Crusade, under blood's vote

by Tolmarher

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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.

Book 2

Second Crusade, under the shadow of Damascus

by Tolmarher

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Second Crusade, under the shadow of Damascus (Negotium Cruces, Chronicle of the Crusades) Jerusalem did not fall in 1144. Something deeper came down: the certainty that God guaranteed victory. When the town of Eden was taken by Zengi, the Christian world felt that the first wall of the East had been broken. From Rome to Claravio, the word cross once again ignited the pulpits. Kings swore. Multitudes responded. Swords were blessed. Louis VII of France. Conlate III of Germania. Two crowns. Two armies. A promise. But promise isn't enough to hold an empire. Along the Danube, amidst intrigues at Constantinople and under the relentless sun of Anatolia, the crusade engulfs before reaching its destination. Hunger, pride, internal divisions and strategic mistakes turn fervor into wear. At Antioch, Christians argue with each other. At Jerusalem, the kings doubt. And finally, at the walls of Damascus, sleep broke in just four days. While the West looks for guilty people, a new figure emerges from an alien error: Nur al-Din, architect of an order that will transform Syria. That novel isn't a romantic chronicle of invincible knights. That's the physical, political and spiritual account of a crusade that promised redemption and found human boundaries. With historic rigour and an intense, coral and bold prose, Second Crusade: Under the shade of Damascus submerges the reader into: Real advice where pride weighs more than faith. Assedios where mud and blood replace glory. Monasteries where the word that inflamed Europe is put into question. Soldiers, merchants and monks living the crusade far from thrones. No perfect heroes here. There are men who believe and doubt and fight and fall. The Second Crusade was a broken promise. But it was also the birth of a new shadow about the East. If you are fascinated by strict historic novels, medieval intrigues and wars of faith with crudely and morally profound, this work will bring you to the heart of the twelfth century without concessions and modern idealizations. The cross will rise again. And this time, heaven doesn't promise anything.

Book 3

Third Crusade under the Jury of Kings

by Tolmarher

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Third Crusade: Under the Jury of Kings (Negotiom Crucies, Chronicles of Crusades No 3) (Negotium Cruces, Chronicle of the Crusades) Jerusalem's down. The echo of his loss goes through the West as an unabated bell blow, calling for kings, princes and knights to conduct the cross and march to the East, where faith has been wounded and honor put to the test. Three crowns responded to his call: Richard of England, Philip of France and Federico Barbaroja, men of power and will, united by an oath that none could fulfill without also facing others. A single man stands up before them but not a minor: Saladin, lord of Egypt and Syria, a prudent ruler and formidable enemy, who has assembled under his banner a world that is no longer ready to give up what it has conquered. From the ashes of Hattin to the walls of Acre, from the pitted plains to the never-open gates of Jerusalem, war unfolds as a clash of armies but as a sign of character, faith and boundaries. The alliances are broken, men are run out, and the cross advances... without reaching the town. That's the chronicle of a great and tragic company, where the greatest of their time faced up to them and to the weight of the impossible. Because not every crusade ends up in victory. And every defeat isn't complete. But some leave a wound that even time can't close.