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The Talisman Paperback - 1991

by Walter Scott; W. M. Parker (Editor); Foreword by W. M. Parker


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En el ao 1187, el sultn Saladino destruy al ejrcito del rey de Jerusaln, Guido de Lusignan, apoderndose de la ciudad santa y de todo el reino latino. Con este motivo se organiz la tercera cruzada, gracias a la coalicin de tres potencias europeas: la francesa, la inglesa y la alemana. Los reyes de Francia y de Inglaterra se dirigieron a Jerusaln por mar, en tanto que el emperador de Alemania lo haca por tierra. Federico Barbarroja, sin embargo, se ahog accidentalmente al atravesar el ro Selef, con lo cual el ejrcito germano se disolvi en su mayora. Mientras tanto, el rey de Francia, Felipe Augusto, y Ricardo Corazn de Len, rey de Inglaterra, conseguan llegar a Tierra Santa y concentrar todos sus esfuerzos alrededor de San Juan de Acre, a pesar de la enorme presin ejercida por Saladino que haba reunido consigo a todas las fuerzas musulmanas vecinas. No obstante, a raz de la rivalidad entre el rey francs y el monarca ingls, as como por el pronto regreso de Felipe Augusto a su patria, San Juan de Acre sucumbi finalmente en el ao 1191. Al ao siguiente se firm una paz de compromiso que dejaba al sultn Saladino el interior de Siria y de Palestina, incluida Jerusaln, mientras que los cruzados se quedaban con toda la costa. En este marco histrico sita Walter Scott la trama de su novela El talismn. A travs del romance amoroso entre dos jvenes (el conde de Huntingdon y Edith Plantagenet) nos familiarizamos no solamente con los personajes principales de la tercera cruzada (Ricardo Corazn de Len y Saladino, presentado con las mismas virtudes de lealtad y humanismo), sino tambin con la mentalidad, el espritu y las costumbres de los cruzados cristianos y de los musulmanes.

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The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters.

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  • Title The Talisman
  • Author Walter Scott; W. M. Parker (Editor); Foreword by W. M. Parker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Everyman Paperback Classics
  • Date October 1991
  • ISBN 9780460870887 / 0460870882
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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