The Medieval Kingdoms Of Cyprus And Armenia

Author : William Stubbs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333113568
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Kingdoms of Cyprus and Armenia written by William Stubbs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Medieval Kingdoms of Cyprus and Armenia: Two Lectures Delivered Oct; 26 and 29, 1878 It is right however that I should preface one word of caution against myself. The Crusades are not, in my mind, ' either the popular delusions that our cheap literature has de termined them to be, nor papal conspiracies against kings and peoples, as they appear to the Protestant controversialist; nor the savage outbreaks of expiring barbarism thirsting for blood and plunder, nor volcanic explosions of religious in tolerance. I believe them to have been, in their deep sources, and in the minds of their best champions, and in the main tendency of their results, capable of ample justification. They were the first great effort of medieval life to go beyond the pursuit of selfish and isolated ambitions; they were the trial feat of the young world, essaying to use, to the glory of God and the benefit of man, the arms of its new knighthood. That they failed in their direct object is only what may be alleged against almost every great design which the great disposer of events has moulded to help the world's progress; for the world has grown wise by the experience of failure, rather than by the winning of 'high aims. That the good they did was largely leavened with evil may be said of every war that has ever been waged; that bad men rose by themwhile good men fell, is and must be true wherever and when ever the race is to the swift and the battle to the strong. But that in the end they were a benefit to the world no one who reads can doubt; and that in their course they brought out a love for all that is heroic in human nature, the love of freedom, the honour of prowess, sympathy with sorrow, per severance to the last, and patient endurance without hope, the chronicles of the age abundantly prove; proving moreover that it was -by the experience of those times that the forms of those virtues were realised and presented to posterity. This much I say, by way of a caution, that you may not accuse me of an attempt to impose upon you. The history of the Crusades has always had for me an interest that quite rivals all the interest I could take in the history of the Greeks and Romans; and very much of that interest is of the same sort; a half archaeological interest in a life and growth from which we have ourselves received some great impulses, but almost all the minutiae of which are important only thgough their con nexion with those great impulses. Such a half archaeological interest I hope you may feel in the history of medieval Cyprus, and what little is to be told of its sister kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.