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Author : Juan Goytisolo
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Saracen Chronicles written by Juan Goytisolo and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chronicles of the Crusades written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharon Kay Penman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101547871
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Lionheart written by Sharon Kay Penman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The great Crusader king Richard the Lionheart comes alive in all his complex splendor in this masterpiece of medieval tapestry.”—Margaret George A.D. 1189. After the death of his father, Henry II, and the early demise of two of his brothers, Richard is crowned King of England and immediately sets off for the Holy Land. This is the Third Crusade, marked by internecine warfare among the Christians and extraordinary campaigns against the Saracens. Richard’s surviving brother, the younger John, is left behind—and conspires with the French king to steal his brother’s throne. Only their mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, now freed from decades of captivity, remains to protect Richard’s interests and secure his destiny. In this engrossing saga, Sharon Kay Penman delivers a novel of passion, intrigue, battle, and deceit. Lionheart is a sweeping tale of a heroic figure—feared by his enemies and beloved by those he commanded—who became a legend in his own lifetime. “[Sharon Kay] Penman displays her usual grasp of sweeping historical events as well as an uncanny ability to get inside the hearts and minds of her real-life characters. Her reputation for character-driven, solidly detailed historicals is richly deserved.”—Booklist “The beautifully described settings and the characters’ interactions are simply outstanding.”—The Historical Novels Review “Penman takes historical writing to a whole new level.”—The Sacramento Bee “[A] gritty, unsentimental, and richly detailed epic.”—Publishers Weekly Don’t miss the exclusive conversation between Sharon Kay Penman and Margaret George at the back of the book.
Author : Ambroise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Chronicles of the Crusades written by Ambroise and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Villehardouin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486149854
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Chronicles of the Crusades written by Geoffrey Villehardouin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Talisman. Chronicles of Canongate (1st series) written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Victor Tolan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231123337
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Saracens written by John Victor Tolan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages.
Author : Richard (of Devizes)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chronicles of the Crusades written by Richard (of Devizes) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James I (King of Aragon)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Chronicles of James I written by James I (King of Aragon) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry G. Bohm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136200703
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Chronicles Of The Crusades written by Henry G. Bohm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rue Allyn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1507201389
Total Pages : 1111 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Knight Chronicles written by Rue Allyn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's danger by day and wild conquest by night when Scottish and English nobles clash in this medieval romance bundle. Don't miss a moment as these knights in shining armor launch valiant quests and discover love where they least expect it. Knight Errant: Lady Juliana Verault joined the religious Beguine community to seek safe haven, but when she's entrusted with a letter from the pope that could radically change the church's stance on women, her life is thrown in turmoil. Knight errant Sir Robert Clarwyn has been sent by King Edward I of England to marry her off as political leverage. If he can't find a way to compel her to return to England, he'll lose any chance of regaining his family lands and redeeming his heritage. Can Juliana find a way to use this godsend for her own agenda--without risking their hearts, too? Knight Protector: Blackmailed into marrying her family's enemy, then swiftly widowed by illness, Lady Sorcha Marr must take charge of a clan who hates her. But fate intervenes with the return of her husband's twin--Sir Colin Marr, who betrayed her and led to her downfall. A decade later, he's back to root out the Scottish traitors who have infiltrated his family stronghold, and he must persuade Sorcha to set aside her hostility and treat him as her husband in his brother's place. He needs the cover not only to save Scotland but to protect her inheritance, which his resentful clan would gladly confiscate. Has fate set them up to even an old score, or embark on a beautiful new beginning? Knight Defender: Sent alone to wed a wild Scot to serve the needs of her father and her king, Lady Jessamyn intends to escape the marriage for a nunnery. But her intended is not the monster she imagined--just Baron Raeb MacKai, a man struggling to provide the best for his clan...even if that involves attacking the king's ship that bears her brother. The Scot's secret plot to keep King Edward I from getting a foothold on their rugged coastline will secure his family's future. If Raeb must deny himself the spirited woman who would warm his bed, so be it. But can he truly deny his heart? Sensuality Level: Sensual
Author : Anthony Bale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474519
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades written by Anthony Bale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.
Author : Sofie Kluge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000450864
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age written by Sofie Kluge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period’s own "aesthetic-historical culture" which amalgamated fact and fiction in ways modern historians would consider counterfactual: a culture where imaginative historical prose, poetry and drama self-consciously rivalled the accounts of royal chroniclers and the dispatches of diplomatic envoys; a culture dominated by a notion of truth in which skilful construction of the argument and exemplarity took precedence over factual accuracy. Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History investigates this grey area backdrop of modern ideas about history, delving into a variety of Golden Age aesthetic-historical works which cannot be satisfactorily described as either works of literature or works of historiography but which belong in between these later strictly separate categories. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : Joseph Cummins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616734039
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The War Chronicles: From Chariots to Flintlocks written by Joseph Cummins and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. Drayson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230608817
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The King and the Whore written by E. Drayson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day.
Author : Patricia E. Grieve
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421429144
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Eve of Spain written by Patricia E. Grieve and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eve of Spain demonstrates how the telling and retelling of one of Spain’s founding myths played a central role in the formation of that country’s national identity. King Roderigo, the last Visigoth king of Spain, rapes (or possibly seduces) La Cava, the daughter of his friend and counselor, Count Julian. In revenge, the count travels to North Africa and conspires with its Berber rulers to send an invading army into Spain. So begins the Muslim conquest and the end of Visigothic rule. A few years later, in Northern Spain, Pelayo initiates a Christian resistance and starts a new line of kings to which the present-day Spanish monarchy traces its roots. Patricia E. Grieve follows the evolution of this story from the Middle Ages into the modern era, as shifts in religious tolerance and cultural acceptance influenced its retelling. She explains how increasing anti-Semitism came to be woven into the tale during the Christian conquest of the peninsula—in the form of traitorous Jewish conspirators. In the sixteenth century, the tale was linked to the looming threat of the Ottoman Turks. The story continued to resonate through the Enlightenment and into modern historiography, revealing the complex interactions of racial and religious conflict and evolving ideas of women’s sexuality. In following the story of La Cava, Rodrigo, and Pelayo, Grieve explains how foundational myths and popular legends articulate struggles for national identity. She explores how myths are developed around few historical facts, how they come to be written into history, and how they are exploited politically, as in the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 followed by that of the Moriscos in 1609. Finally, Grieve focuses on the misogynistic elements of the story and asks why the fall of Spain is figured as a cautionary tale about a woman’s sexuality.
Author : Chronicles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chronicles of the Crusades, Being Contemporary Narratives of the Crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion, by Richard of Devizes and Geoffrey de Vinsauf; and of the Crusade of Saint Louis, by Lord John de Joinville. With Illustrative Notes and an Index written by Chronicles and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
