Author: Evan S. Connell
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 158243140X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471
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God wills it! The year is 1095 and the most prominent leaders of the Christian World are assembled in a meadow in France. Deus lo volt! This cry is taken up, echoes forth, is carried on. The Crusades have started, and wave after wave of Christian pilgrims rush to assault the growing power of Muslims in the Holy Land. Two centuries long, it will become the defining war of the Western world.
Author: Sébastien Mamerot
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836505550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A rare 15th-century account of French crusades and pilgrimages to the Holy Land is featured in this facsimile reprint. Readers can now pore over the meticulously reproduced miniatures of battles, church scenes, funerals, religious ceremonies, and royal proceedings.
Author: Thierry Delcourt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836554459
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Completed around 1474, Sébastien Mamerot's lavishly illustrated manuscript Les Passages d'Outremer is the only contemporary document to describe the French crusades to capture the Holy Land. This new hardcover edition includes a complete translation of Mamerot's epic text alongside 66 meticulously reproduced miniatures from Jean Colombe.
Author: Helen Nicholson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367194765
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Published in 1997, this is a translation of the The Itenerary of the Pilgrims and the deeds of King Richard. This chronicle is the most complete account of the Third Crusade, covering the events of the crusade in order.
Author: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141970871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The story of the First Crusade, as witnessed by contemporary writers 'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!' The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour and the beginning of what proved to be a futile and abortive attempt to implant a new European kingdom of heaven in an overwhelmingly Muslim world. This remarkable collection brings together a wide variety of contemporary accounts of the First Crusade, including Pope Urban II's initial call to arms of 1095, as well as the first-hand writings of priests, knights, a Jewish pilgrim, a destitute noblewoman, an Iraqi poet and the historian Anna Comnena. Together they provide a vivid and nuanced picture of the First Crusade and the people who were swept up in it. Edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Tyerman
Author: Geoffrey Villehardouin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486149854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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This book features two eyewitness accounts of the Crusades: Villehardouin's Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople and Joinville's Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Lewis. A pair of engrossing narratives by actual participants, these are among the most authoritative accounts available of the medieval Holy Wars. They recount terrifying scenes from the battlefields that recapture the horror of warfare, and offer invaluable insights into the religious and political fervor that sparked the two hundred-year campaign. The first reliable history of the Crusades, Villehardouin's work spans the era of the Fourth Crusade, from 1199–1207. It traces the path of a small army of crusaders who despite overwhelming odds captured the city of Constantinople. Joinville's chronicle focuses on the years 1248–1254, the time of the Seventh Crusade. Written by a prominent aid to King Louis of France, it offers personal perspectives on the pious monarch and his battles in the Holy Lands. Both of these highly readable histories provide rare glimpses of medieval social, economic, and cultural life in the context of the crusaders' quest for honor, piety, and glory.
Author: H. A. R. Gibb
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486143406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Remarkable contemporary account of early Crusades by one of Damascus' leading citizens covers events of 1097–1159. Based on both written and oral reports, colorful narrative relates every particular of life during wartime.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Author: Henry G. Bohm
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136200703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
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First published in 2006. This important book presents three of the most interesting contemporary accounts of the Crusades. The first, by Richard of Devizes, tells us of events taking place in the Holy Land and their connection to contemporaneous events in England. The second account is work by Geoffrey de Vinsauf on the Third Crusade. It is an eye-witness account of the ferocious assaults which Saladin made on the Christians and of the firmness with which Richard the Lionheart repulsed them. The third work is a memoir of Saint Louis, the Crusading King of France, written by Lord John de Joinville. All of the texts are valuable for their content as well as contrasting points of view they bring to light.
Author: Ambroise
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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