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  • 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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  • The Trial of the Templars

    by Malcolm Barber ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Malcolm Barber's classic The Trial of the Templars recounts the dramatic demise of this elite military force in the fourteenth century. Having fought against Islam in the crusades in the East for nearly two centuries, in October 1307 the members of this respected Order were arrested on the order of Philip IV, King of France and charged with serious heresies, including homosexuality and the denial ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Two Cities

    Medieval Europe 1050–1320

    by Malcolm Barber ...
    Covering a colourful period of medieval history from the schism between the eastern and western churches to the death of Dante, The Two Cities provides an introduction to key topics such as:The CrusadesThe expansionist force of the NormansMajor developments in the way kings, emperors and popes exercised their powersA great flourishing of art and architectureThe foundation of the very first ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Crusaders and Heretics, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries

    by Malcolm Barber ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    These articles seek to understand the attitudes and reactions of medieval society to both external threat and internal dissension, whether real or imagined. The crusaders encompass the Templars and the Knights of St Lazarus, members of military orders committed to the cause of perpetual battle for the faith; more reluctant secular knights urged into the complicated conflicts of Latin Greece by the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Cathars

    Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages

    by Malcolm Barber ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    In the second half of the twelfth century, the Catholic Church became convinced that dualist heresy was taking root within Christian society and that it was particularly strong in southern France. The nature and extent of this heresy and the reaction of the Church to the perceived threat have been the focus of extensive research since the mid-nineteenth century, research which has become ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Military Orders Volume I

    Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick

    Edited by Malcolm Barber ...
    Series series The Military Orders
    This book contains 42 papers delivered at the International Conference on Military Orders held at Clerkenwell, London, in September, 1992. There are five sections covering the Hospitallers, the Templars, the Teutonic Knights, the Spanish Orders, and the perceptions and role of the orders.The impact of the military orders on European History has been profound, both in what they achieved and in the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 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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  • Hiding Mengele

    How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death

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    The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great

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