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Book The Crusader

Download or read book The Crusader written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Dictionary of the Crusades

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Crusades written by Corliss K. Slack and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crusades were among the longest and most bitter wars in human history and consisted of no less than seven major expeditions from Western Europe from the late 11th to the early 14th centuries for the purpose of wresting Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the control of the Muslims. In the end, it was the Muslims who won, and the Christians who suffered a major setback, and the Middle East remained firmly in Muslim hands. This was one of the worst clashes between different religions and civilizations and, for long, it was largely forgotten or brushed over. That is no longer the case, with many Muslims regarding Western interference in the region as a repeat of the crusades while launching their own jihads. So, while an old conflict, it is still with us today. Even at the time, it was very hard to understand the causes and outcome of the crusades, and that remains a problem today. This Historical Dictionary of the Crusades cannot claim to have resolved it, but it most definitely does make the situation easier to understand. The introduction provides an overview, tracing the crusades from one expedition to the next, and assessing their impact. The actual flow of events is far easier to follow thanks to the chronology. And maps help to trace the events geographically. The entries, and there are more than 300 of them in this second edition, look more closely at notable figures, including Pope Gregory VII, Richard “the lionhearted,” and Saladin, as well as important places (Jerusalem, Constantinople and others), events, battles and sieges, as well as the use of weapons and armor. The bibliography points to further reading.

Book A Heritage of Holy Wood  The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image

Download or read book A Heritage of Holy Wood The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image written by Barbara Baert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study reconstructs the tradition of the Legend of the True Cross in text and image, from its tentative beginnings in 4th-century Jerusalem to the culminating expression of its multi-layered cosmic content in 14th and 15th-century monumental cycles in Germany and Italy.

Book The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West

Download or read book The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West written by Colin Morris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tomb of Christ at Jerusalem was a vital influence in the making of Western Europe. Pilgrimage there influenced the development of society and its structures. The desire to 'bring the Sepulchre to the West' in copies or memorials shaped art and religion, while the ambition to control Christ's tomb was a central objective of the crusades. Western Europe responded to the loss of Jerusalem by creating a new pilgrimage to the East, by making kingdoms 'holy lands' for their subjects, and by creating new pilgrim centres at home. This book brings together social, political, and religious themes often considered in isolation.

Book The A to Z of the Crusades

Download or read book The A to Z of the Crusades written by Corliss K. Slack and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 11th through the early 14th centuries at least seven major expeditions were made between Western Europe and the Holy Land with the goal of ending Muslim control of Jerusalem. Ultimately the crusaders were driven out, but not before a cultural exchange had taken place that had an immense impact on Western Europe and an equally enormous, albeit less positive, impact on Arabs and the Islamic world. Although the crusades occurred many centuries ago, echoes still resound through the current clashes of nations and ideologies, kidnappings for ransom, assassinations, and the declaring of 'jihad'_all making the crusades an eminently timely subject. This one-volume overview provides an accessible reference work for scholars, students, and general readers on the period with numerous entries on key persons, places, events, battles and sieges, use of weapons and armor, and the deeper issues of the political and cultural background. Complete with a detailed chronology and a bibliography, this work allows readers to learn how Europe was changed forever by these battles with Islam.

Book Crusade Propaganda and Ideology

Download or read book Crusade Propaganda and Ideology written by Christoph T. Maier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2000, presents an edition of seventeen ad status model sermons for the preaching of the crusades from the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The majority of these texts had never been printed before publication of this book. They are unique sources for the content of crusade propaganda in the later Middle Ages, giving a rare insight into the way in which propaganda shaped the public's view of crusading during that period. Accompanying the Latin texts is an English translation which is aimed at making these sources accessible to a wider circle of students and scholars. The first part of the book consists of a study of these model sermons which focuses on their place in the pastoral reform movement of the thirteenth century, their specific character as models for the use of crusade propagandists, their internal structure, and the image of the crusade conveyed in the texts.

Book The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land

Download or read book The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land written by Kathryn Blair Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.

Book Report of the     Biennial Convention and Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings of the World s Woman s Christian Temperance Union

Download or read book Report of the Biennial Convention and Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings of the World s Woman s Christian Temperance Union written by World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Convention and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World History Jeopardy

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  • Author : Kathy Sammis
  • Publisher : Walch Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780825143571
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book World History Jeopardy written by Kathy Sammis and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore centuries of history with this stimulating quiz game. This new edition of our best-seller, World History Challenge, learning important historical facts is more fun and effective.

Book The International Good Templar

Download or read book The International Good Templar written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Country Life Illustrated

Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crusader Art in the Holy Land  From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre

Download or read book Crusader Art in the Holy Land From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre written by Jaroslav Folda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-05 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book History of the Fourth Crusade

Download or read book History of the Fourth Crusade written by Edwin Pears and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek speaking Roman empire at the end of the twelfth century was very much smaller than it had once been. It is no part of my purpose to trace the history of its decline, further than to show what were the immediate causes which led to its weakness in 1203, when the Fourth Crusade effected what is generally known as the Latin Conquest of Constantinople. In the year 1200 the territory over which the Roman emperor in the East ruled, no longer included any part of Italy or Sicily. Cyprus had been taken possession of by our Richard the Lion-hearted in 1190, and never again came under the sway of the emperors. The Saracens had captured some of the fairest Asiatic provinces which had owned allegiance to Constantinople. The successes of the Crusaders had for a time established a kingdom of Jerusalem, and had won a considerable number of important places from the enemy, but as the century closed nearly all of them had been lost...

Book Digest  Review of Reviews Incorporating Literary Digest

Download or read book Digest Review of Reviews Incorporating Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Digest

Download or read book Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fall of Constantinople bring the Story of the Fourth Crusade

Download or read book The Fall of Constantinople bring the Story of the Fourth Crusade written by Edwin Pears, LL..B. and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: