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  • Letters from the East

    Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th–13th Centuries

    by Malcolm Barber, Keith Bate ...
    Series series Crusade Texts in Translation
    No written source is entirely without literary artifice, but the letters sent from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine in the high middle ages come closest to recording the real feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader states. They are not, of course, reflective pieces, but they do convey the immediacy of circumstances which were frequently dramatic and often life-threatening. Those ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • The Templars

    The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

    by Dan Jones ...
    **“Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.” – The Times, Book of the YearA New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is “a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger" – Simon Sebag ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Crusaders

    The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands

    by Dan Jones ...
    A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones.For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Rise and Fall of the Knights Templar

    The Order of the Temple 1118-1314 - A True History of Faith, Glory, Betrayal

    by Gordon Napier ...
    A highly readable look at the lifespan of the famous Knights Templar, who were warrior monks and the first disciplined, regulated, and uniformed standing army since antiquity throughout Europe and the Holy Lands—an economic force to be reckoned with and perhaps an institution guarding dark secrets. The origins of the concept of Holy War are explored, from Biblical times through the rise of Islam ... Read more

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  • The Knights Templar at War, 1120–1312

    by Paul Hill ...
    A look at the famed medieval Catholic order, with an emphasis on military history—includes numerous illustrations.There are many books about the Knights Templar, the medieval military order which played a key role in the crusades against the Muslims in the Holy Land, the Iberian peninsula, and elsewhere in Europe. What is seldom explored is the military context in which they operated. This book ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secrets of the Knights Templar

    The Hidden History of the World's Most Powerful Order

    by Susie Hodge ...
    The Knights Templar are one of the most secretive and powerful religious orders in history: for over two centuries they were the elite fighting force of the Crusades. Highly trained, and adhering to a strict chivalric code, their success on the battlefield brought them both wealth and political influence. But it is the legends and secrecy surrounding the order and its Grand Masters that continue ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Crusader States

    by Malcolm Barber ...
    "An enriching account of the expansion of the political and cultural frontiers of the Latin West in the central Middle Ages."— History TodayWhen the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's plan: to re ... Read more

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  • 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

  • A Brief History of the Crusades

    by Geoffrey Hindley ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and women, led by knights and ladies, kings and queens, embark on campaigns of fanatical conquest in the world of Islam? The word 'Crusade' came later, but the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Crusades

    A Reader, Second Edition

    Edited by S.J. Allen, Emilie Amt ...
    Since the publication of the first edition of The Crusades: A Reader, interest in the Crusades has increased dramatically, fueled in part by current global interactions between the Muslim world and Western nations. The second edition features an intriguing new chapter on perceptions of the Crusades in the modern period, from David Hume and William Wordsworth to World War I political cartoons and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Knights Templar

    The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order

    by Sean Martin ...
    This book is an essential exploration into the history of a legendary group of Crusaders, which are prominently featured in Dan Brown's recent best seller, The Da Vinci Code. The Knights Templar rose from humble beginnings to become the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages. Formed to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land, they participated in the Crusades and rapidly gained wealth ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Book of Marvels and Travels

    by John Mandeville ...
    Translated by Anthony Bale ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. He tells us about the Sultan in Cairo, the Great Khan in China, and the mythical Christian prince ... Read more

    $9.99 USD