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Book The Crusader s Vow

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  • Author : Claire Delacroix
  • Publisher : Nook Press
  • Release : 2017-03-17
  • ISBN : 9781538019924
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The Crusader s Vow written by Claire Delacroix and published by Nook Press. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A company of knights chosen to deliver a sealed trunk from the Templar treasury in Jerusalem to safekeeping in Paris. A group of pilgrims seeking the protection of the Templars to return home as the Saracens prepare to besiege the city. A mysterious treasure that someone will even kill to possess... Returning home to Scotland triumphant after his military service, and entrusted with the precious relic of the Templars, Fergus is more than ready to wed his beloved Isobel and begin their life together. To his dismay, Isobel has wed another in his absence, and he believes all of merit is stolen from his life-until Leila resolves to win the valiant highlander's heart for her own. She is convinced of her own success, until Isobel tempts Fergus anew.

Book The Crusader s Vow

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  • Author : Claire Delacroix
  • Publisher : Deborah A. Cooke
  • Release : 2017-03-17
  • ISBN : 1927477670
  • Pages : 421 pages

Download or read book The Crusader s Vow written by Claire Delacroix and published by Deborah A. Cooke. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fergus’ heart was broken forever—until Leila tempted him to love again… Returning home to Scotland triumphant and entrusted with the precious relic of the Templars, Fergus is stunned to learn that his beloved Isobel has wed another man. He knows he will never love again, so a marriage of convenience to his friend and comrade, Leila, seems a fitting compromise. At least it will give Leila the security of a home and husband, even if it offers far less than Fergus desired of marriage… Leila fears her past will pursue her, compelling to return to her former life, until Fergus offers the ideal solution. She yearns for more than a practical match with the valiant Highlander, but hopes to win his heart before revealing the love she has kept secret from him. All might end well, if Fergus’ former betrothed would just relinquish her hold upon him… When those who hunt the Templar treasure in Fergus’ possession identify its location, both Fergus and Leila could lose far more than their marriage. Will they triumph over the past and trust each other in time to find happiness together? * * * The Champions of St. Euphemia series follows the quest of a group of knights entrusted with a treasure in Jerusalem which they must deliver safely to Paris on their way to their respective homes. They find adventure and peril on the way, as well as romance. Since the stories overlap and build upon each other, they should be read in order. 1. The Crusader's Bride 2. The Crusader's Heart 3. The Crusader's Kiss 4. The Crusader's Vow 5. The Crusader's Handfast * * * Templar, knight, medieval, action adventure, quest, treasure, disguise, secret identity, lost heir, widow, arranged marriage, marriage of convenience, friends to lovers, scottish, highlander, may december, warrior, jerusalem, venice, paris, scotland, england, robin hood, fish out of water

Book The Crusader s Vow

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  • Author : Claire Delacroix
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-08-03
  • ISBN : 9781989367742
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Crusader s Vow written by Claire Delacroix and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a knight arrives home from crusade and learns that his betrothed has wed another, he proposes a marriage of convenience to the woman who has taken refuge with his company, never expecting their friendship to blossom into love-or for the peril from abroad to follow him back to Scotland and endanger his new bride.

Book A Crusader s Vow

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  • Author : Deborah Dickey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-20
  • ISBN : 9781487429881
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book A Crusader s Vow written by Deborah Dickey and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preaching the Crusades

Download or read book Preaching the Crusades written by Christoph T. Maier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Dominicans' and Franciscans' propagandist role in the thirteenth-century crusades.

Book The Crusades  Christianity  and Islam

Download or read book The Crusades Christianity and Islam written by Jonathan Riley-Smith and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claiming that many in the West lack a thorough understanding of crusading, Jonathan Riley-Smith explains why and where the Crusades were fought, identifies their architects, and shows how deeply their language and imagery were embedded in popular Catholic thought and devotional life.

Book A Note on the Attestation of Crusaders  Vows

Download or read book A Note on the Attestation of Crusaders Vows written by James Arthur Brundage and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crusaders

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  • Author : Régine Pernoud
  • Publisher : Ignatius Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780898709490
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book The Crusaders written by Régine Pernoud and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Forgotten Crusaders

Download or read book The Forgotten Crusaders written by Mikolaj Gladysz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analysing cases of Polish involvement in the crusades and collecting traces of the crusading ideology and preaching in Polish sources from the 12th and 13th century, the book makes a valuable contribution to the discussion about the place of Central Europe in medieval Western Civilization.

Book Crusading and the Crusader States

Download or read book Crusading and the Crusader States written by Andrew Jotischky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crusading and the Crusader States explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled society of the eleventh century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. It follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions, offering insights into initial success and subsequent failure, charts the development of new attitudes towards Islam and its followers, and shows the effects of the Crusades on society and culture in the Near East. Providing analysis and discussion of this vital period of medieval history, Andrew Jotischky discusses key questions such as how crusading evolved in theory and practice, how crusading expeditions were planned and carried out, why they were considered such an essential part of medieval society, and why their popularity endured despite military failures. This new edition takes into account the wealth of rich and varied recent research to show why crusading should be seen as central to the European experience in the Middle Ages. It engages with key historiographical debates of the past decade, including how Crusades were formed, the political culture and social networks of crusading, and the effects of crusading on western religious and aristocratic culture. It now extends into the fifteenth century to discuss the lasting ramifications of the Crusades, and illustrate their legacy into the early modern period. It is essential reading for all students of the Crusades and medieval history.

Book The Barons  Crusade

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  • Author : Michael Lower
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2013-04-19
  • ISBN : 0812202678
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book The Barons Crusade written by Michael Lower and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1235, Pope Gregory IX altered the mission of a crusade he had begun to preach the year before. Instead of calling for Christian magnates to go on to fight the infidel in Jerusalem, he now urged them to combat the spread of Christian heresy in Latin Greece and to defend the Latin empire of Constantinople. The Barons' Crusade, as it was named by a fourteenth-century chronicler impressed by the great number of barons who participated, would last until 1241 and would represent in many ways the high point of papal efforts to make crusading a universal Christian undertaking. This book, the first full-length treatment of the Barons' Crusade, examines the call for holy war and its consequences in Hungary, France, England, Constantinople, and the Holy Land. In the end, Michael Lower reveals, the pope's call for unified action resulted in a range of locally determined initiatives and accommodations. In some places in Europe, the crusade unleashed violence against Jews that the pope had not sought; in others, it unleashed no violence at all. In the Levant, it even ended in peaceful negotiation between Christian and Muslim forces. Virtually everywhere, but in different ways, it altered the relations between Christians and non-Christians. By emphasizing comparative local history, The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences brings into question the idea that crusading embodies the religious unity of medieval society and demonstrates how thoroughly crusading had been affected by the new strategic and political demands of the papacy.

Book The Crusades

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  • Author : Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780826472694
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book The Crusades written by Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crusades: A History is a comprehensive, single-volume history of the Crusades, from their beginnings in the eleventh century through to their decline and eventual ending at the close of the eighteenth century. As well as providing an account of the major Crusades, the book describes the organization of a Crusade, the experience of crusading and the Crusaders themselves.

Book The Queen s Vow

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  • Author : C. W. Gortner
  • Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0345523962
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book The Queen s Vow written by C. W. Gortner and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an evocative, vividly imagined novel about one of history's most famous and controversial queens--the warrior who united a fractured country, the champion of the faith whose reign gave rise to the Inquisition, and the visionary who sent Columbus to discover a New World.

Book What Were the Crusades

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  • Author : Jonathan Riley-Smith
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 1977-12-01
  • ISBN : 1349158151
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book What Were the Crusades written by Jonathan Riley-Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 1977-12-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the legitimising authority of the papacy, the nature of the crusade vow and of the privilege accorded to crusaders, the developments of the indulgence, and the role of Military Orders.

Book Transcending Mission

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  • Author : Michael W. Stroope
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2017-02-28
  • ISBN : 0830882251
  • Pages : 479 pages

Download or read book Transcending Mission written by Michael W. Stroope and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the language of mission clearly evident across the broad reaches of time? Or has the modern missionary enterprise distorted our view of the past? Michael Stroope investigates how the modern church has come to understand, speak of, and engage in the global expansion of Christianity, offering a hopeful way forward in this pressing conversation.

Book The Crusades  Holy War and Canon Law

Download or read book The Crusades Holy War and Canon Law written by James A. Brundage and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is concerned, above all, with the legal background and the juristic issues behind the ideology and practice of the medieval Crusades. This is an area that the author was the first to investigate systematically, and there are two particular reasons for his approach: one, the conviction that the historical phenomenon of the Crusades can only be adequately understood within the context of the legal systems that permeated the age; the other, that so much of the documentary evidence ” be it charters, decrees even chronicles ” was produced by people whose perceptions had been shaped by the law. A number of articles focus on the roles of individual crusaders, or address ideological questions, including the very concept of Holy War. Others deal with practical issues and the nature of the obligations incurred by a crusader, and examine the consequences these had, both for the institutions of medieval Europe and for the crusader's own family relationships. Ce recueil s'attache avant tout au contexte légal et aux questions juridiques qui se trouvent à la base de l'idéologie et de la pratique des Croisades au Moyen Age. L 'auteur a été le premier à entreprendre des recherches de façon systématique dans ce domaine; deux raisons précises sont à l'origine de cette démarche premièrement, la conviction que seule la connaissance du contexte des systèmes légaux dont l'époque était imprégnée, permet de bien comprendre le phénomène historique des Croisades; deuxièmement, le fait que quantité de documents ” temoins ” chartes, décrets, ou encore chroniques ” sont l'oeuvre de gens dont la perception était grandement influencée par la loi. Un nombre d'études se concentrent sur la rôle individuel de certains croisés, ou s'adressent à des questions d'idéologie, y compris le concept même de la Guerre Sainte. D'autre traitent de questions d'ordre pratique, ainsi que de la nature des engagements contractés par le croisé; ils en examinent le

Book Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150   1500

Download or read book Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150 1500 written by Alan V. Murray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a major contribution to the history of the Northern Crusades and the Christianization of the Baltic lands in the Middle Ages, from the beginnings of the Catholic mission to the time of the Reformation. The subjects treated range from discussions of the ideology and practice of crusade and conversion, through studies of the motivation of the crusading countries (Denmark, Sweden and Germany) and the effects of the crusades on the countries of the eastern Baltic coast (Finland, Estonia, Livonia, Prussia and Lithuania), to analyses of the literature and historiography of the crusade. It brings together essays from both established and younger scholars from the western tradition with those from the modern Baltic countries and Russia, and presents in English some of the fruits of the first decade of historical scholarship and dialogue after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. The depth of treatment, diversity of approaches, and accompanying bibliography of publications make this collection a major resource for the teaching of the Baltic Crusades.