Cushing's Crusade
Cushing's Crusade

Author: Tim Jeal

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0571303927

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Derek Cushing - thirtyish, balding, unassuming archivist/researcher into European expansion in East Africa - is also the son of Gilbert, father of Giles, and husband of Diana. On the last count, though, he has begun to fear that he is wearing cuckold's horns. His plan for addressing the crisis leads him to take his wife, son and ageing father to stay at the Cornish mansion of the smooth-talking gallery owner he believes to be his wife's lover. But this, at least, is a place where disputes may be brought to a head. First published in 1974, Cushing's Crusade was Tim Jeal's third novel, for which he won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. 'Mr Jeal is a writer very much out of the ordinary, trenchant, elegant, subtle.' Sunday Telegraph 'A charming, highly enjoyable and most accomplished novel.' Nina Bawden, Telegraph 'Extremely funny, perceptive and moving.' Guardian

A Middle English Chronicle of the First Crusade
A Middle English Chronicle of the First Crusade

Author: William (of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre)

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13:

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Cushing, who holds a bachelor's degree from the U. of Toronto, has produced a side-by-side translation of Caxton's 15th-century English translation of William of Tyre's French history of the crusades. In this second and concluding volume (covering chapters 113-212), we read of the battles of Duke Godfrey, the Count of Toulouse, and Count Baldwin; the capture of Jerusalem and slaughter that followed; and the dividing up of the city among the Crusaders. A bibliography and list of Internet sites is included. c. Book News Inc.

Crusades
Crusades

Author: Dr Nikolaos G. Chrissis

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2015-12-28

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1472468414

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Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) drawing together scholars working on war, theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. It publishes both historical sources of the Crusades - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in European and oriental languages, and interpretative studies. Ashgate publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East in both print and online editions, and the subscription price covers both. The print edition also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. The journal is available on-line via IngentaConnect: www.IngentaConnect.com/Crusades. The on-line edition does not include the Society’s Bulletin.

Blues Before Sunrise
Blues Before Sunrise

Author: Steve Cushing

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2010-01-15

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0252033019

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This collection assembles the best interviews from Steve Cushing's long-running radio program Blues Before Sunrise, the nationally syndicated, award-winning program focusing on vintage blues and R&B. As both an observer and performer, Cushing has been involved with the blues scene in Chicago for decades. His candid, colorful interviews with prominent blues players, producers, and deejays reveal the behind-the-scenes world of the formative years of recorded blues. Many of these oral histories detail the careers of lesser-known but greatly influential blues performers and promoters. The book focuses in particular on pre–World War II blues singers, performers active in 1950s Chicago, and nonperformers who contributed to the early blues world. Interviewees include Alberta Hunter, one of the earliest African American singers to transition from Chicago's Bronzeville nightlife to the international spotlight, and Ralph Bass, one of the greatest R&B producers of his era. Blues expert, writer, record producer, and cofounder of Living Blues Magazine Jim O'Neal provides the book's foreword.

Armies of Heaven
Armies of Heaven

Author: Jay Rubenstein

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0465027482

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At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders -- their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads -- indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time the Crusaders reached Jerusalem, their quest -- and their violence -- had become distinctly otherworldly: blood literally ran shin-deep through the streets as the Crusaders overran the sacred city. Beginning in 1095 and culminating four bloody years later, the First Crusade represented a new kind of warfare: holy, unrestrained, and apocalyptic. In Armies of Heaven, medieval historian Jay Rubenstein tells the story of this cataclysmic event through the eyes of those who witnessed it, emphasizing the fundamental role that apocalyptic thought played in motivating the Crusaders. A thrilling work of military and religious history, Armies of Heaven will revolutionize our understanding of the Crusades.

Crusades
Crusades

Author: Benjamin Z. Kedar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1351985507

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Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.

Crusades
Crusades

Author: Benjamin Kedar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-30

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 042975762X

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Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095–1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages – narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. The editors are Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University, Israel; Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.