Literature of the Crusades
Author: Simon Thomas Parsons
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781843844587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades
Author: Anthony Bale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-03
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1108474519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.
Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World
Author: David A. Wacks
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2019-09-06
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1487505019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to this day. Narratives of crusades powerfully shaped European thinking about the East and continue to influence the representation of interactions between Christian and Muslim states in the region. The crusade, a French idea that gave rise to Iberian, North African, and Levantine campaigns, was very much a Mediterranean phenomenon. French and English authors wrote itineraries in the Holy Land, chronicles of the crusades, and fanciful accounts of Christian knights who championed the Latin Church in the East. This study aims to explore the ways in which Iberian authors imagined their role in the culture of crusade, both as participants and interpreters of narrative traditions of the crusading world from north of the Pyrenees.
Story of the Crusades
Author: John Green
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2006-10-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0486451658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet against a vivid backdrop of ancient lands and mighty fortresses, 30 ready-to-color pictures of the Crusades depict fierce battles, courageous leaders, and the fall of magnificent cities.
The History of the Crusades
Author: Joseph Fr. Michaud
Publisher:
Published: 1881
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Boy Knight
Author: G. A. Henty
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-05-10
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0486115852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis story of medieval life follows the remarkable adventures of young Cuthbert de Lance, a lad who serves as a page to an English nobleman during the Third Crusade.
Pagan's Crusade
Author: Catherine Jinks
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780763620196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn twelth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City.
Shadow of the Swords
Author: Kamran Pasha
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-06-22
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1416580700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn epic saga of love and war, Shadow of the Swords tells the story of the Crusades—from the Muslim perspective. Saladin, a Muslim sultan, finds himself pitted against King Richard the Lionheart as Islam and Christianity clash against each other, launching a conflict that still echoes today. In the midst of a brutal and unforgiving war, Saladin finds forbidden love in the arms of Miriam, a beautiful Jewish girl with a tragic past. But when King Richard captures Miriam, the two most powerful men on Earth must face each other in a personal battle that will determine the future of the woman they both love—and of all civilization. Richly imagined, deftly plotted, and highly entertaining, Shadow of the Swords is a remarkable story that will stay with readers long after the final page has been turned.
Crusader King
Author: Susan Peek
Publisher: TAN Books
Published: 2004-10
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 161890194X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new historical novel about the unusual life of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, the leper crusader king who - despite ascending to the throne at only 13, his early death at 24 and his debilitating disease - performed great and heroic deeds in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Teenagers and avid readers of all ages will be amazed at this story and be inspired by a faith that accomplished the impossible!
The Crusades
Author: Carole Hillenbrand
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13: 9780415929141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive work of cultural history gives us something we have never had: a view of the Crusades as seen through Muslim eyes. With breathtaking command of medieval Muslim sources as well as the vast literature on medieval European and Muslim culture, Carole Hillenbrand has produced a book that shows not only how the Crusades were perceived by the Muslims, but how the Crusades affected the Muslim world - militarily, culturally, and psychologically. As the author demonstrates, that influence continues now, centuries after the events. In The Crusades the reader discovers how the Muslims reacted to the Franks, and how Muslim populations were displaced, the ensuing period of jihad, the careers of Nur al-Din and Saladin, and the interpenetration of Muslim and Christian cultures. Stereotypes of the Franks in Muslim documents offer a fascinating counter to Western views of the infidel of legend. For readers interested in the Middle Ages, military history, the history of religion, and postcolonial studies, The Crusades opens a window onto a conflict we have only viewed from one side. The Crusades is richly illustrated, with eighteen color plates and over five hundred line drawings and black and white photographs.
