Author: Michael Toy
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1622957326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Knights of Grace. That is the group we twelve Knights created to keep order after the governments of the twelve Nations were overthrown. I am the Knight of Two. That is my name, my title and position. No one knows who we are or who we were. Our identities must be kept secret from the people or chaos will rise. After a year of peace a member of our group betrays us and reveals himself as Xalden, formerly known as the Knight of Twelve. However that's not even the beginning of this chaotic world's story. With twelve Nations come the twelve Gifts. Power of Light, Darkness, Fire, Sound, Earth, Strength, Skill, Fear, Air, Sight, Electricity, and Speed are the twelve Gifts. Being born in the Nation of Speed my Gift is the Power of Speed. Being able to fight and move at unimaginable speeds and more is the power of my gift. Xalden's Gift is the Power of Darkness. What makes us Knights of Grace so special is that we are the most powerful of all and, if we so pleased, could destroy the world in one fell swoop. We have all the power in the land that is to offer. What Xalden is after is beyond us. However in our current status stopping him is impossible. Xalden was able to take our armor and fuse it to his own increasing his Gift power. Xalden, what is your goal in raising this chaos?
Author: Ethan Hawke
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307962334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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An unforgettable fable about a father's journey and a timeless guide to life's many questions—from Ethan Hawke, four-time Academy Award nominee, twice for writing and twice for acting. A knight, fearing he may not return from battle, writes a letter to his children in an attempt to leave a record of all he knows. In a series of ruminations on solitude, humility, forgiveness, honesty, courage, grace, pride, and patience, he draws on the ancient teachings of Eastern and Western philosophy, and on the great spiritual and political writings of our time. His intent: to give his children a compass for a journey they will have to make alone, a short guide to what gives life meaning and beauty.
Author: Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux)
Publisher: Cistercian Publications Books
ISBN: 9780879071202
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The monk and the knight -- the two quintessentially medieval European heroes -- were combined in the Knights Templar and in the other military orders founded in the era of the Crusades. With characteristic eloquence, Bernard of Clairvaux voices the cleric's view of knights, warfare, and the conquest of the Holy Land in five chapters on the knights' vocation. Then the cistercian abbot who never visited Palestine and discouraged monks who proposed doing so, in another eight chapters, provides a spiritual tour of the pilgrimage sites guarded by this 'new kind of knighthood and one unknown to ages gone by.'
Author: Grace Knight
Publisher: New Holland Publishers (AU)
ISBN: 9781742570549
Category : Adult child abuse victims
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Grace Knight is an English born Australian vocalist. This book covers her childhood trauma and tracks her rise to fame as a singer.
Author: Geoffroi de Charny
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812208684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess." On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within herself at the fact that she has set her mind and heart on loving and helping to make such a good knight or good man-at-arms." On the worthiest amusements: "The best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come." Enter the real world of knights and their code of ethics and behavior. Read how an aspiring knight of the fourteenth century would conduct himself and learn what he would have needed to know when traveling, fighting, appearing in court, and engaging fellow knights. Composed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry was designed as a guide for members of the Company of the Star, an order created by Jean II of France in 1352 to rival the English Order of the Garter. This is the most authentic and complete manual on the day-to-day life of the knight that has survived the centuries, and this edition contains a specially commissioned introduction from historian Richard W. Kaeuper that gives the history of both the book and its author, who, among his other achievements, was the original owner of the Shroud of Turin.
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: Richard W. Barber
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 0851159508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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The image of Arthur has haunted the poets and writers of western Europe for nearly nine centuries, and there is no sign of an end to the reign of the 'once and future king'. The author aims to show the diversity of those legends of Arthur, and to illustrate the ways in which poets and writers created new stories around the great heroes, or told the same story in different ways.
