Download or read book Stories from the Crusades written by Janet Harvey Kelman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stories from the Crusades" by Janet Harvey Kelman rlates how Peter the Hermit, with the Pope's blessing, gathers men to his side and leads the first crusade, resulting in the capture of Jerusalem and installation of Godfrey as defender of the holy sepulchre. After the Muslims recapture Jerusalem, three great kings of Europe vow to regain the Holy City: King Richard the Lionhearted of England, King Philip of France, and the Emperor Frederick of Germany.
Download or read book The Story of the Crusades Serapis Classics written by Edith Wilmot-Buxtun and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two hundred years which cover, roughly speaking, the actual period of the Holy War, are crammed with an interest that never grows dim. Gallant figures, noble knights, generous foes, valiant women, eager children, follow one another through these centuries, and form a pageant the colour and romance of which can never fade, for the circumstances were in themselves unique. The two great religious forces of the world—Christianity and Islam, the Cross and the Crescent—were at grips with one another, and for the first time the stately East, with its suggestion of mystery, was face to face with the brilliant West, wherein the civilisation and organisation of Rome were at last prevailing over the chaos of the Dark Ages...
Download or read book Richard I Serapis Classics written by Jacob Abbott and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Richard the First, the Crusader, was a boisterous, reckless, and desperate man, and he made a great deal of noise in the world in his day. He began his career very early in life by quarreling with his father. Indeed, his father, his mother, and all his brothers and sisters were engaged, as long as the father lived, in perpetual wars against each other, which were waged with the most desperate fierceness on all sides...
Download or read book Stories from the Crusades written by Janet Harvey Kelman and published by Yesterdays Classics. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings the Crusades to life through stories of its most famous participants. Relates how Peter the Hermit, with the Pope's blessing, gathers men to his side and leads the first crusade, resulting in the capture of Jerusalem and installation of Godfrey as defender of the holy sepulchre. After the Muslims recapture Jerusalem, three great kings of Europe vow to regain the Holy City: King Richard the Lionhearted of England, King Philip of France, and the Emperor Frederick of Germany. Despite winning many battles in this third crusade and capturing the city of Acre, they fail to win back the city of Jerusalem. King Louis of France launches the last crusade, but dies before achieving his objective. Throughout the narrative we meet all sorts of men. Some, like Bohemond and Baldwin, fight for selfish ends; others, such as Tancred and Louis, do battle like the great knights they are; while a few, Francis among them, carry goodwill wherever they go.
Download or read book The Byzantine Empire Serapis Classics written by Charles Oman and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight years ago a little fleet of galleys toiled painfully against the current up the long strait of the Hellespont, rowed across the broad Propontis, and came to anchor in the smooth waters of the first inlet which cuts into the European shore of the Bosphorus. There a long crescent-shaped creek, which after-ages were to know as the Golden Horn, strikes inland for seven miles, forming a quiet backwater from the rapid stream which runs outside. On the headland, enclosed between this inlet and the open sea, a few hundred colonists disembarked, and hastily secured themselves from the wild tribes of the inland, by running some rough sort of a stockade across the ground from beach to beach. Thus was founded the city of Byzantium...
Download or read book The Story of the Crusades written by Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two hundred years which cover, roughly speaking, the actual period of the Holy War, are crammed with an interest that never grows dim. Gallant figures, noble knights, generous foes, valiant women, eager children, follow one another through these centuries, and form a pageant the colour and romance of which can never fade, for the circumstances were in themselves unique. The two great religious forces of the worldÑChristianity and Islam, the Cross and the CrescentÑwere at grips with one another, and for the first time the stately East, with its suggestion of mystery, was face to face with the brilliant West, wherein the civilisation and organisation of Rome were at last prevailing over the chaos of the Dark Ages. A very special kind of interest, moreover, belongs to the story of the Crusades in that the motive of the wars was the desire to rescue from the hands of unbelievers But we shall see, as we read the story, that this was only a part of the real motive power which inspired and sustained the Holy War. Even if the land of Palestine and the Holy City, Jerusalem, had never fallen into the hands of the Saracens, some such war was inevitable. The East was knocking at the doors of the West with no uncertain sound. An extraordinary force had come into existence during the four centuries that immediately preceded the First Crusade, which threatened to dominate the whole of the Western world. It was a religious forceÑalways stronger and more effective than any other; and it was only repelled with the greatest difficulty by Christendom, inspired, not so much by the motive of religion, as by that curious mixture of romance and adventurous design which we call chivalry. Let us try, then, first of all, to get some idea of these Men of the East, the Mohammedans or Saracens, who managed to keep Europe in a state of constant turmoil for upwards of five centuries, and to do that we must go back to the latter years of the sixth century after Christ. About fifty miles from the shores of the Red Sea stands the city of Mecca, one of the few important towns to be found on the fringe of the great sandy desert of Arabia. During hundreds of years Mecca had been the venerated bourne of pilgrims, for, embedded in the walls of the sacred building known as the Kaaba, was the "pure white stone," said to have fallen from heaven on the day that Adam and Eve took their sorrowful way from the gates of Paradise.
Download or read book Stories of the Crusades written by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Crusades and the Crusaders Or Stories of the Struggle for the Holy Sepulchre written by John George Edgar and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God Wills It A Tale of the First Crusade written by William Stearns Davis and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-03-02 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Crusades and the Crusaders Classic Reprint written by John G. Edgar and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Crusades and the Crusaders The piety and chivalry exhibited by those Christian warriors, who, at an early period of European civilization, le: their homes and their countries to rescue the Holy Sepulchre from the grasp of Moslem conquerors, have since seldom save in the case of men too sceptical to sym pathize, or too stupid to comprehend failed to excite admiration and curiosity. My object, in this book for boys, is to give an idea of the heroes who, animated by religion and heroism, took part in the battles, the sieges, the marvellous enterprises of valor and despair, which make up the history of those great adventures known as the Crusades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Story of the Crusades written by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book "The Story of the Crusades," E. M. Wilmot-Buxton retells and describes the most famous events from the crusades. This book revolves around the rise of Islam to the adventures of Bohemond and Richard the Lionheart to the ultimate fall of Constantinople. It is centered around faith, belief, righteousness, and other virtues to embrace.
Download or read book Winning His Spurs written by George Alfred Henty and published by Musson Book Company, [188-?]. This book was released on 1882 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of the Crusades written by John Mason Neale and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God Wills It a Tale of the First Crusade Classic Reprint written by William Stearns Davis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from God Wills It! A Tale of the First Crusade Abd Rahman, come: feel my wrist, and do not fear to speak the truth. The Moor at the foot of the bed rose from the rushes whereon he had been squatting; stole noiselessly to the Sick man's side. From the arch of the vault above dangled a silver ball. The Moor smote the ball, and With his eye counted the slow vibrations while his hand held the wrist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sword and Scimetar written by Alfred Trumble and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Crusades Illustrated written by E M Wilmot-Buxton and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ILLUSTRATED CLASSIC The Story of the Crusades is an illustrated retelling of the Crusades, appropriate for a junior high or high school audience. DETAILS: Includes the Original Illustrations
Download or read book Tales of the Crusaders written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
