En el año 1187, el sultán Saladino destruyó al ejército del rey de Jerusalén, Guido de Lusignan, apoderándose de la ciudad santa y de todo el reino latino. Con este motivo se organizó la tercera cruzada, gracias a la coalición de tres potencias europeas: la francesa, la inglesa y la alemana. Los reyes de Francia y de Inglaterra se dirigieron a Jerusalén por mar, en tanto que el emperador de Alemania lo hacía por tierra. Federico Barbarroja, sin embargo, se ahogó accidentalmente al atravesar el río Selef, con lo cual el ejército germano se disolvió en su mayoría. Mientras tanto, el rey de Francia, Felipe Augusto, y Ricardo Corazón de León, rey de Inglaterra, conseguían llegar a Tierra Santa y concentrar todos sus esfuerzos alrededor de San Juan de Acre, a pesar de la enorme presión ejercida por Saladino que había reunido consigo a todas las fuerzas musulmanas vecinas. No obstante, a raíz de la rivalidad entre el rey francés y el monarca inglés, así como por el pronto regreso de Felipe Augusto a su patria, San Juan de Acre sucumbió finalmente en el año 1191. Al año siguiente se firmó una paz de compromiso que dejaba al sultán Saladino el interior de Siria y de Palestina, incluida Jerusalén, mientras que los cruzados se quedaban con toda la costa. En este marco histórico sitúa Walter Scott la trama de su novela El talismán. A través del romance amoroso entre dos jóvenes (el conde de Huntingdon y Edith Plantagenet) nos familiarizamos no solamente con los personajes principales de la tercera cruzada (Ricardo Corazón de León y Saladino, presentado con las mismas virtudes de lealtad y humanismo), sino también con la mentalidad, el espíritu y las costumbres de los cruzados cristianos y de los musulmanes.
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The "Betrothed" did not greatly please one or two friends, who thought that it did not well correspond to the general title of "The Crusaders." They urged, therefore, that, without direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period, the title of a "Tale of the Crusaders" would resemble the playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. On the other hand, I felt the difficulty of giving a vivid picture of a part of the world with which I was almost totally unacquainted, unless by early recollections of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments; and not only did I labour under the incapacity of ignorance—in which, as far as regards Eastern manners, I was as thickly wrapped as an Egyptian in his fog—but my contemporaries were, many of them, as much enlightened upon the subject as if they had been inhabitants of the favoured land of Goshen. The love of travelling had pervaded all ranks, and carried the subjects of Britain into all quarters of the world. Greece, so attractive by its remains of art, by its struggles for freedom against a Mohammedan tyrant, by its very name, where every fountain had its classical legend—Palestine, endeared to the imagination by yet more sacred remembrances—had been of late surveyed by British eyes, and described by recent travellers.
Sir Walter Scott (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America.
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