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  • The Crusades

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Tyerman ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Crusading fervour gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian expeditions, or the last of the barbarian invasions, they have fascinated generations ever since, and their legacy of ideas and imagery has resonated through the centuries, inspiring Hollywood movies and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Chronicles of the First Crusade

    by Christopher Tyerman ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The World of the Crusades

    by Christopher Tyerman ...
    A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusadersThroughout 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 ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Practices of Crusading

    Image and Action from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries

    by Christopher Tyerman ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The crusades influenced western European society in the middle ages far beyond the military campaigns themselves. Reactions and involvement did not always follow the assumptions of ideology or supporters, medieval or modern. In this wide ranging collection of articles spanning thirty years, Christopher Tyerman explores the relationships between action and perception, ambition and practice, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The History and Pre-History of Hertford College, Oxford

    Survival and Renewals

    by Christopher Tyerman ...
    Modern Hertford is one of Oxford's least famous colleges. Its chief claims to attention are its pioneering egalitarian reforms of its admissions system in the 1960s and 70s, its early embrace of co-residence in 1974, and its deliberate transformation from a poor, obscure, dilapidated, ill-favoured, and introspective conservative backwater to an open, outward-looking, financially secure, and ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

  • How to Plan a Crusade

    by Christopher Tyerman ...
    The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked: the massive, all-encompassing, and hugely costly business of actually preparing a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Debate on the Crusades, 1099–2010

    by Christopher Tyerman ...
    Series series Issues in Historiography
    David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that ‘the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind’. This is the first book length study of how succeeding generations from the First Crusade in 1099 to the present day have understood, refashioned, moulded and manipulated accounts of these medieval wars of religion to suit ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    How to Plan a Crusade

    Religious War in the High Middle Ages

    by Christopher Tyerman ...
    Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 53 min

    A spirited and sweeping account of how the Crusades really worked―and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle AgesThe story of the wars and conquests initiated by the first Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the pope’s calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Crusades

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Tyerman ...
    Narrated by Stephen Bowlby ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    Crusading fervor gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian expeditions, or the last of the barbarian invasions, they have fascinated generations ever since, and their legacy of ideas and imagery has resonated through the centuries, inspiring Hollywood movies and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Postmodernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 7 min

    Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Slum Boy

    'One of the most moving accounts of non-fiction ever written' GUARDIAN

    by Juano Diaz ...
    'A heart-breaking, inspiring read' ALAN CUMMING'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN'If you like Shuggie Bain, then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN SISSAYJohn MacDonald is a four-year-old boy growing up in the slums of Glasgow. His mother is an addict who leaves him starving in their flat for days at a time.When a neighbour files a report, John is wrenched away from her ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO

    the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance

    by Peter Apps ...
    'EXCELLENT' - THE TLS'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook