Mikhail Abramovich Zaborov, ( name in Russian: Михаил Абрамович Заборов ) Soviet historian-medievalist, the largest specialist in the history of the Crusades, popularizer of historical knowledge. Doctor of historical sciences, professor.
Since 1970 - an employee, and since 1980 - the head of the sector of the Institute of the International Labor Movement of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Mikhail Abramovich Zaborov was born in the family of an employee. He studied at Moscow State University, during the war he was evacuated to Chelyabinsk. In 1942-1945 he taught at the Chelyabinsk Pedagogical Institute. In 1945 he joined the CPSU (b).
In 1947, M. A. Zaborov defended his thesis “The Union of Two Philippi (from the History of Franco-German Relations in 1198-1208)”.
In 1967 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the historiography of the Crusades.
The development of the history of the Europeans' crusades to the East in the 11th-13th centuries M. A. Zaborov led throughout his life, becoming the largest specialist in the USSR in the USSR. He is the author of 365 publications, including 14 books.
He published the following monographs:
Crusades (1956); Papacy and Crusades (1960); Crusaders and their campaigns to the East (1962); Introduction to the historiography of the Crusades (Latin chronography of the 11th – 13th centuries) (1966); Historiography of the Crusades (literature of the 15th — 19th centuries) (1971, written on the basis of a doctoral dissertation defended in 1967); Crusaders in the East (1980).
He made and published translations of sources, wrote reviews and reviews. He is also the author of chapters on the history of the Crusades and international relations in several editions of the textbook on the history of the Middle Ages for universities.
M. A. Zaborov was a member of the Scientific Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the history of historical science, actively participated in a number of council sessions.
Irreverente historia de las cruzadas que pone de manifiesto que no fueron otra cosa que un pretexto de los poderosos (y los no tan poderosos, pero sí ávidos de poder y riquezas) para ganar aún más poder en Oriente. Estos, engañaron a los campesinos que sufrían condiciones pésimas de vida en Europa para hacerles creer que su "salvación" (terrenal y espiritual) se hallaba en "Tierra Santa".
El autor concluye que las cruzadas no trajeron nada bueno para Europa y la civilización occidental (y mucho menos para los orientales) y que especialmente la cuarta cruzada, con el saqueo de Constantinopla y la división de la Grecia bizantina en "estados latinos" fue un golpe catastrófico tanto para el estado bizantino como para su legado artístico, cultural, espiritual y material en el mundo.
abusa mucho del campesino bueno, feudal malo🤬🤬🤬🤬 (no digo que sea cierto o no, solo que la constante reiteración lo hace algo pesado de leer) pero la verdad que esperaba algo más sesgado para venir de un autor abiertamente comunista. muy esclarecedor para conocer las causas socioeconómicas tras las cruzadas sin tener que recurrir al tópico de la devoción religiosa.