Download or read book Pilgrim written by James H. Jackson and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Crusade

Download or read book The Great Crusade written by H. P. Willmott and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the classic survey of World War II's military history

Download or read book Crusaders written by Dan Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones. 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 on who 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 avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era. Expanding the usual timeframe, Jones looks to the roots of Christian-Muslim relations in the eighth century and tracks the influence of crusading to present day. He widens the geographical focus to far-flung regions home to so-called enemies of the Church, including Spain, North Africa, southern France, and the Baltic states. By telling intimate stories of individual journeys, Jones illuminates these centuries of war not only from the perspective of popes and kings, but from Arab-Sicilian poets, Byzantine princesses, Sunni scholars, Shi'ite viziers, Mamluk slave soldiers, Mongol chieftains, and barefoot friars. Crusading remains a rallying call to this day, but its role in the popular imagination ignores the cooperation and complicated coexistence that were just as much a feature of the period as warfare. The age-old relationships between faith, conquest, wealth, power, and trade meant that crusading was not only about fighting for the glory of God, but also, among other earthly reasons, about gold. In this richly dramatic narrative that gives voice to sources usually pushed to the margins, Dan Jones has written an authoritative survey of the holy wars with global scope and human focus.

Download or read book A History of the Crusades written by Steven Runciman and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion' Steven Runciman's triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusades remains an unsurpassed account of the events that changed the world and continue to resonate today. This final volume of the trilogy begins with the glamorous Third Crusade and ends with the ruinous collapse of the crusader states and the degeneration of their ideals, which reached its nadir in the tragic destruction of Byzantium. 'When historical events are written about with this sort of command, they take on not only the universality of a fairy tale but also a certain moral weight. Runciman writes both seductively and instructively about the dignity and beauty of different religious beliefs and about the difficulties of their co-existence' Independent

Download or read book The Crusades written by Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pulls off the enviable feat of summing up seven centuries of religious warfare in a crisp 309 pages of text."--Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World In this authoritative work, Jonathan Riley-Smith provides the definitive account of the Crusades: an account of the theology of violence behind the Crusades, the major Crusades, the experience of crusading, and the crusaders themselves. With a wealth of fascinating detail, Riley-Smith brings to life these stirring expeditions to the Holy Land and the politics and personalities behind them. This new edition includes revisions throughout as well as a new Preface and Afterword in which Jonathan Riley-Smith surveys recent developments in the field and examines responses to the Crusades in different periods, from the Romantics to the Islamic world today. From reviews of the first edition: "Everything is here: the crusades to the Holy Land, and against the Albigensians, the Moors, the pagans in Eastern Europe, the Turks, and the enemies of the popes. Riley-Smith writes a beautiful, lucid prose, . . . [and his book] is packed with facts and action."--Choice "A concise, clearly written synthesis . . . by one of the leading historians of the crusading movement. "--Robert S. Gottfried, Historian "A lively and flowing narrative [with] an enormous cast of characters that is not a mere catalog but a history. . . . A remarkable achievement."--Thomas E. Morrissey, Church History "Superb."--Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Speculum "A first-rate one-volume survey of the Crusading movement from 1074 . . . to 1798."--Southwest Catholic

Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades written by Jonathan Riley-Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the crusades ranges from the eleventh century to modern times and includes commentary on the art and architecture associated with the crusades and insights into the history of the knightly orders.

Download or read book Pilgrim written by James H. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1212. The forces of Christendom are on the march again. There is much to avenge. Twenty-five years ago, the Christian army lay slaughtered on the desolate plain of the Horns of Hattin. Mighty Saladin, ruler of the Moslem world, went on to capture Jerusalem, crush the Crusaders and push back the remnants of the Latin empire to a thin line of threatened coastal forts. The Holy Land seemed lost. But now the Pope has called for crusade. Many take the cross for pilgrimage and battle. Among them is Otto, a young noble heading for the Holy Land in search of his vanished Hospitaller Knight father, and Brother Luke, a mysterious Franciscan on a mission of his own. And then there are the children, tens of thousands of them, pledged to recapture Jerusalem and find the True Cross, the holiest of relics lost to the forces of Islam. But what begins as a religious quest will turn into a harrowing nightmare of hardship and danger. For dangers press in and the way ahead is perilous. Some will not survive. What they seek is Truth. What they find is Hell.

Download or read book The Great Crusade a New Complete History of the Second World War written by H. P. Willmott and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Next Great Crusade of Our Time written by Michael P Wright and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Next Great Crusade of Our Time is about the crusade and events between the Christians and the Muslims that have been happening since 1980 until today. All the events in this book have already taken place and what this could lead up to. Also describes how history is repeating itself with the current affairs in the world right now. Tells about the Third Crusade and what took place over 800 years ago while comparing it to the present day. I believe this book has been written at the right time for the times that we are living in right now.

Download or read book The Crusades written by Ernest Barker and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CRUSADES. Originally published in 1923 - PREFACE: - The Signficance of the Crusades. - THE Crusades may be regarded partly as the decumanus fEuctus in the tide of religious revival, which had begun in western Europe during the tenth century, and had mounted high during the eleventh partly as a chapter, and a most important chapter, in the history of the interaction of East and West. Contemporaries regarded them in the former of these two aspects, as holy wars and pilgrims progresses towards Christs Sepulchre the reflective eye of the historian must perhaps regard them no less from the latter point of view. Considered as holy wars the Crusades must be interpreted by the ideas of an age which was dominated by the spirit of otherworldliness, and accordingly ruled by the clerical power which represented the other world. They are a novum salutis genus, a new path to Heaven, to tread which counted for full and complete satisfaction pro omni poenitentia and gave forgiveness of sins peccaminum remissio l they are, again, the foreign policy of the papacy, directing its faithful subjects to the great war of Christianity against the infidel. As a new way of salvation, the Crusades connect themselves with the history of the penitentiary system as the foreign policy of the Church, they belong to that clerical purification and direction of feudal society and its instincts, which appears in the institution of Gods Truce and in chivalry itself. The penitentiary system, according to which the priest enforced a code of moral law in the confessional by the sanction 1 Fulcher of Chartres, I, i. For what follows, with regard to the Churchs conversion of guerra into the Holy War, cf. especially the passage- Procedant contra infideles ad pugnam iam incipi dignam . . . qui abusive privatum cerramen contra fideles consuescebant distendere quondam. 4 The Sig ificautce of the Crusades of penancepenance which must be performed as a condition of admission to the sacrament of the Eucharist-had been from early times a great instrument in the civilization of the raw Germanic races. Penance might consist in fasting it might consist in flagellation it might consist in pilgrimage. The penitentiary pilgrimage, which seems to have been practised as early as A. D. 700, was twice blessed not only was it an act of atonement in itself, like fasting and flagellation it aIso gained for the pilgrim the merit of having stood on holy ground. Under the influence of the Cluniac revival, which began in the tenth century, pilgrimages became increasingly frequent and the goal of pilgrimage was often Jerusalem. Pilgrims who were travelling to Jerusalem joined themselves in companies for security, and marched under arms the pilgrims of 1064, who were headed by the archbishop of Mainz, numbered some 7,000 men...

Download or read book THE GREAT UNIVERSAL CRUSADE written by Felipe Chavarro Polanía and published by Felipe chavarro. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Great Universal Crusade Felipe Chavarro Polania has created a masterpiece, offering all the best aspects of the genre. Mystery, plot and adventure fill the pages of the second volume of The Apprentice saga, transporting the reader to the spiritual realm like no other. In the African continent and the renowned Byzantine empire, where the greatest movements of thought collided, a horde of fighters from the kingdom of Saba, faces a fierce battle against dark and supernatural forces that vehemently oppose the mission entrusted to them. In this majestic setting, Tzur, and the nine members of his troop, find themselves at the center of a conflict that will unleash all the antagonistic forces that have clashed since time immemorial: truth and lies, betrayal and loyalty, compassion and thirst for revenge, love and hate, service and power, virtue and lust, conceit and sanity, all in order to win the deadliest of battles: The Great Universal Crusade. Already considered a modern classic, chavarro's stunning series will live on as one of the great achievements of imagination and fantasy literature.

Download or read book A History of the Crusades written by Steven Runciman and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams...' Steven Runciman's unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which brilliantly brings to life the personalities, battles, massacres, triumphs and follies of these epochal events. In this second volume of his trilogy Runciman tells the story of the foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the disastrous, bloody Second Crusade and the inexorable rise of the crusaders' nemesis, Saladin. 'The pre-eminent historian of the Byzantine Empire and of the Crusades ... a surefooted guide who could render the past visible and familiar' Daily Telegraph 'He tells his story plain ... always pleasurable to read' Gore Vidal

Download or read book God s War written by Christopher Tyerman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'God's War' is a definitive history of the Crusades, drawing on all the most recent scholarship to give a vigorous, intelligent and absorbing account of one of the great movements of the Middle Ages.

Download or read book The Great Crusade and After 1914 1928 written by Preston William Slosson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Crusaders written by Robert Broomall and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Crusaders" is a novel about the the greatest military undertaking of the Middle Ages -- the Third Crusade. "The Great Adventure" tells how a monk named Roger leaves his abbey and joins the seemingly irresistible tide of knights and soldiers headed for the Holy Land. In 1187, the Muslim sultan Saladin destroyed the Christian army at the battle of Hattin and went on to capture Jerusalem. Three years later, a great crusade departs Europe, led by the kings of England and France and the emperor of the Germans, determined to reconquer the Holy Land. Roger is an English monk, abandoned at Huntley Abbey when he was an infant. Roger has never felt at home in the confines of the Church. He wants to see the world. He wants to be a knight and do great deeds, like his idol, Richard the Lionheart. He wants to help free Jerusalem from the Saracens. But he is bound by his religious vows and is forbidden to leave the abbey. Then he saves a peasant girl from being assaulted, and everything changes . . . Coming soon: "The Crusaders, Part II: The Siege"

Download or read book Arab Historians of the Crusades written by Francesco Gabrieli and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of Acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happenings were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. For the first time contemporary accounts of the fighting between Muslim and Christian have been translated into English, and the Western reader can learn ʻthe other side' of the Holy War. Seventeen authors are represented in the extracts in this work, which have been drawn from various types of historical writings. The excerpts are taken firstly from the general histories of the Muslim world, then from chronicles of cities, regions and their dynasties, and finally from biographies or records of the deeds of certain persons. The Arab histories of the Crusades compare favourably with their Christian counterparts in their rich accumulation of material and chronological information. Another of their merits is their faithful characterization, which they practised in the brief but illuminating sketches of enemy leaders: Baldwin II's shrewdness, Richard Coeur de Lion's prowess in war, the indomitable energy of Conrad of Montferrat, Frederick II's diplomacy. The chroniclers are generous, naturally, with their praises of the great champions of the Muslim resistance, especially of Saladin, who towers above all the other leaders in heroic stature. Altogether, this book gives a sweeping and stimulating view of the Crusades seen through Arab eyes."--Dust jacket.

Download or read book The Greatest Crusade written by Richard Hough and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: