EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Crusade for Liberation

Download or read book Crusade for Liberation written by Julius K. Nyerere and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crusade for Liberation

Download or read book Crusade for Liberation written by Julius K. Nyerere and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crusade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rick Atkinson
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780395710838
  • Pages : 614 pages

Download or read book Crusade written by Rick Atkinson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating interviews with individuals ranging from senior policymakers to frontline soldiers, a look at the Persian Gulf War shows how the conflict transformed modern warfare.

Book People of the First Crusade

Download or read book People of the First Crusade written by Michael Foss and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Foss tells the stories of these men and women of the First Crusade, often in their own words, bringing the time and events to life. Through these eyewitness accounts the cliches of history vanish, the distinctions between hero and villain blur: the Saracen is as base or noble, as brave or cruel, as the crusader. In that sense, the fateful clash between Christianity and Islam teaches us a lesson for our own time.

Book The San Jupons Crusade for Liberation During the French Revolution

Download or read book The San Jupons Crusade for Liberation During the French Revolution written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The sans jupons  crusade for liberation during the French Revolution

Download or read book The sans jupons crusade for liberation during the French Revolution written by Mary Jay Durham and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Liberation of Jerusalem

Download or read book The Liberation of Jerusalem written by Torquato Tasso and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The bitter tragedy of human life— horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out alongside a magical romance of love and sacrifice, in which the Christian knight Rinaldo succumbs to the charms of the pagan sorceress Armida, and the warrior maiden Clorinda inspires a fatal passion in the Christian Tancred. Tasso's masterpiece left its mark on writers from Spenser and Milton to Goethe and Byron, and inspired countless painters and composers. This is the first English translation in modern times that faithfully reflects both the sense and the verse form of the original. Max Wickert's fine rendering is introduced by Mark Davie, who places Tasso's poem in the context of his life and times and points to the qualities that have ensured its lasting impact on Western culture. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Crusade of Fire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Kurtz
  • Publisher : Aspect
  • Release : 2009-09-26
  • ISBN : 0446565490
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book Crusade of Fire written by Katherine Kurtz and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend holds that their alliance was formed in A.D. 1119 in order to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land. Later they came to be known as the warrior elite of Christiandom. But because of their intense secrecy, many debated whether the Knights Templar were the embodiment of divine good—or the incarnation of evil. Here, the bestselling author/editor who brought readers Tales of the Knights Templar and On Crusade: More Tales of the Knights Templar returns with another brilliant collection of original stories by some of fantasy fiction’s best and brightest authors about the mystical legends surrounding the Knights Templar.

Book The Crusade for Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernesto B. Vigil
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780299162245
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book The Crusade for Justice written by Ernesto B. Vigil and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the history of a Chicano rights group in 1960s Denver.

Book Julius K  Nyerere

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book Julius K Nyerere written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Plan a Crusade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Tyerman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 1681775867
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book How to Plan a Crusade written by Christopher Tyerman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked: the massive, all-encompassing, and hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and marched off to a highly uncertain future in the Holy Land and elsewhere have never been sufficiently understood. Their actions raise a host of compelling questions about the nature of medieval society.How to Plan a Crusade is remarkably illuminating on the diplomacy, communications, propaganda, use of mass media, medical care, equipment, voyages, money, weapons, wills, ransoms, animals, and the power of prayer during this dynamic era. It brings to life an extraordinary period of history in a new and surprising way.

Book Liberation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Munson
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2011-02-01
  • ISBN : 9781453778326
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Liberation written by Eric Munson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man walks down an empty street to find himself in a confrontation with three, something beyond human, beings. Vampires are real and these seemed to be out for his blood. After his escape, he sets himself upon a course filled with violence, danger, and the unknown. A requisite for this course includes abandoning his identity in order to go underground in this mission to protect humans and hunt the undead. He must learn effective means of protecting himself, and taking down his prey, as well as adapting to and countering the many surprising abilities of that prey. A few years into this self-appointed crusade, he arrives too late to save a woman from a group of vampires. After destroying them he goes to the woman inches from death who tries to give a last request. Dying before she could utter her plea, he tracked down her car to learn more about her. In the back seat he finds a sleeping six week old baby girl. On top of the crusade, he now goes through the trials and tribulations of fatherhood. The deeper into the vampire world he goes the more complexities he discovers. There are communities and groups of highly advanced, organized, and immensely powerful vampires which he encounters, interacts with, and ultimately plays a significant role in events that will shape the future of humankind.

Book The First Crusade and Idea of Crusading

Download or read book The First Crusade and Idea of Crusading written by Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Riley-Smith marshals his case lucidly.""--Times Literary Supplement ""Riley-Smith's analysis of the formation of Crusading ideology offers a provocative new interpretation. . . . [His] scholarship is impeccable, and he supports his contentions with

Book The Crusades to the Holy Land

Download or read book The Crusades to the Holy Land written by Alan V. Murray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the latest scholarship by experts in the field, this work provides an accessible guide to the Crusades fought for the liberation and defense of the Holy Land—one of the most enduring and consequential conflicts of the medieval world. The Crusades to the Holy Land were one of the most important religious and social movements to emerge over the course of the Middle Ages. The warfare of the Crusades affected nearly all of Western Europe and involved members of social groups from kings and knights down to serfs and paupers. The memory of this epic long-ago conflict affects relations between the Western and Islamic worlds in the present day. The Crusades to the Holy Land: The Essential Reference Guide provides almost 90 A–Z entries that detail the history of the Crusades launched from Western Europe for the liberation or defense of the Holy Land, covering the inception of the movement by Pope Urban II in 1095 up to the early 14th century. This concise single-volume work provides accessible articles and perspective essays on the main Crusade expeditions as well as the important crusaders, countries, places, and institutions involved. Each entry is accompanied by references for further reading. Readers will follow the career of Saladin from humble beginnings to becoming ruler of Syria and Egypt and reconquering almost all of the Holy Land from its Christian rulers; learn about the main sites and characteristics of the castles that were crucial to the Christian domination of the Holy Land; and understand the key aspects of crusading, from motivation and recruitment to practicalities of finance and transport. The reference guide also includes survey articles that provide readers with an overview of the original source materials written in Latin, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, and Syriac.

Book The Origin of the Idea of Crusade

Download or read book The Origin of the Idea of Crusade written by Carl Erdmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though conditioned by the specific circumstances of eleventh-century Europe, the launching of the crusdaes presupposed a long historical evolution of the idea of Christian knighthood and holy war. Carl Erdmann developed this argument first in 1935 in a book that is still recognized as basic to an understanding of how the crusades came about. This first edition in English includes notes supplementing those of the German text, a foreword discussing subsequent scholarship, and an amplified bibliography. Paying special attention to the symbolism of banners as well as to literary evidence, the author traces the changes that moved the Western church away from its initial aversion to armed combat and toward acceptance and encouragement of the kind of holy war that the crusades would represent: a war whose specific cause was religion. Erdmann's analysis stresses the role of church reformers and Gregory VII, without neglecting the "popular" idea of crusade that would assure an astonishingly enthusiastic response to Urban II's appeal in 1095. His book provides an unrivaled account of he interaction of the church with war and warriors during the early Middle Ages. Carl Erdmann (1898-1945) taught at the University of Berlin and was associated with the Monumenta Germania historica. Marshall Baldwin was Professor Emeritus of History at New York University at his death in 1975. Walter Goffart is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book The First Crusade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Runciman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1992-01-31
  • ISBN : 9780521427050
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book The First Crusade written by Steven Runciman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pope Urban II rose to his feet to address the multitudes gathered before him at the Council of Clermont in 1095, his appeal was simple: let Western Christendom march to the aid of their brethren in the East. Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most tremendous and romantic of Christian expeditions or the last of the barbarian invasions, they remain one of the most exciting and colorful adventure stories in history. Steven Runicman's History of the Crusades is justly acclaimed as the most complete and fascinating account of the historic journey to save the Holy Land from the infidel.

Book Caffaro  Genoa and the Twelfth Century Crusades

Download or read book Caffaro Genoa and the Twelfth Century Crusades written by Martin Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective. Here is a very different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone. To see the similarities and differences with the mainstream sources offers an exciting new dimension to our understanding of the reception of crusading ideas in the Mediterranean and, given Genoa’s prominence in the commercial world, can help to illuminate the complex and controversial relationship between holy war and financial gain. Caffaro’s main composition, the ’Annals’ of Genoa, began with the First Crusade and extended down to 1163. It also covers the city’s dealings with the Papacy, the German Empire, Sicily, Muslim Spain, and Pisa, as well as the development of Genoa itself. Sections from Caffaro’s continuators take the story down to the Third Crusade. Caffaro’s two other texts are exclusively about the crusades: ’The Liberation of the Cities of the East’ and ’The Capture of Almería and Tortosa’, while associated with him but of a later date is the ’Short History of Jerusalem’. Alongside these narratives are a number of charters and letters that relate to, and complement, the main texts. These relate to matters such as Genoese privileges in the Holy Land and form a valuable resource in their own right. Placed alongside Caffaro’s narratives they can show the blend of commercial energy, civic pride and religious conviction that were the basis of Genoese activity in the complex world of the medieval Mediterranean.