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Author
Series
Crusades trilogy (Jan Guillou) volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
One of the most feared warriors of the Knights Templar, Arn de Gotha, after being exiled for twenty years, returns home to Sweden only to find his beloved homeland torn apart by warring clans and embarks on a new quest--to create a new society and establish lasting peace.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliquaries. Campaigns required material funds and equipment, while conquests produced bureaucracies, taxation, economic exploitation, and commercial regulation. Wealth sustained the Crusades while material objects,...
Author
Series
Templar trilogy (Jack Whyte) volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After King Philip IV of France declares the Templar knights outlaws and by way of murder and imprisonment seizes their assets, Sir William Sinclair leads the survivors to temporary sanctuary in Scotland, where they team up with Robert Bruce and after a rousing victory at Bannockburn seek out the fabled land of Templar lore--Merica.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth portrait of the Crusades-era Mediterranean world, and a new understanding of the forces that shaped the Mediterranean world of 1050-1200. We experience the sights and sounds of the region just as enlightened Islamic empires and primitive Christendom began to contest it. We learn about the siege tactics, theological disputes, and poetry of this enthralling time. And we see that people ofdifferent faiths coexisted far more frequently than...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Recognizing that the Christian crusades unfolded in a world shaped by Islamic jihads, Lambert scrutinizes both militant forms of religion simultaneously. In a world where memories of crusader atrocities sustain virulent new forms of jihad, such balanced scholarship offers hope of interfaith understanding.
Author
Series
Crusades trilogy (Jan Guillou) volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Templar Knight Arn Magnusson forges a friendship with his enemy, Saladin, and becomes a free man after the Battle of Hattin, but he must face a long a bloody road home if he is ever going to be reunited with his betrothed.
17) The convert
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Middle Ages have just begun when Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous French family, falls in love with David Todros, a student at the city's yeshiva, and the son of a rabbi. To be together, they must flee their city, Vigdis renouncing a life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father's knights and in constant danger of betrayal, the lovers embark on a dangerous journey to the south of France, only to find their brief happiness...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Two knights return home from the Crusades to a land devastated by the Black Plague and they are ordered by the Church to transport an accused witch, who they believe to be responsible for the disease, to a remote abbey where a ritual will be performed to abolish her powers.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
Español
Description
As the people of Jerusalem--Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike--await attack and inevitable slaughter during the Crusades, they gather around a wise man who answers their questions and teaches them in parables about love, faith, and other topics.
20) Templar's Acre
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A war has been raging here for decades. The forces of the Crusaders have been pushed back time and again by the Muslims and now just one city remains in Crusader control. That one city stands between the past and the future and must be defended at all costs. That city is Acre. And into this battle where men will fight to the death to defend their city comes a young boy. Green and scared, he has never seen battle before. But he is on the run from...
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