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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending onwho you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. In the largest mobilization since the fall of the Roman Empire, some 100,000 men took up the call, driven on by intense religious devotion, convinced that their struggle would earn them the reward of eternal paradise in Heaven. This book recounts a three-year adventure filled with barbarity: from the mobilization in Europe, where great waves of anti-Semitism resulted...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hugh De Luc returns from the Crusades to find his son killed, his wife kidnapped, and his town gutted in the search for a priceless relic . . . and now, he must fight to save everything he holds dear.
Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders came in the dead of night, like devils, wearing no colours but black crosses on their chests. They...
Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders came in the dead of night, like devils, wearing no colours but black crosses on their chests. They...
Author
Series
Medieval/Song series volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
8) The Normans
Author
Publisher
New Discovery Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, government, family life, religion, and other customs of the Normans.
10) Lionheart
Author
Series
Henry II novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
11) King
Author
Series
Richard the Lionheart volume 3
Publisher
Orion Fiction
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Warleader: Autumn 1192. With Jerusalem still in the Saracens' hands, and a peace treaty agreed with their leader Saladin, Richard the Lionheart is free at last to travel back to his strife-ridden kingdom. By his side at every turn is the loyal knight Ferdia, also known as Rufus. Together they will face not just Richard's archenemy Philippe Capet of France, but also the king's treacherous younger brother, John. Captive : Shipwrecked on the Italian...
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