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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xvi, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Publisher description: On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afire. Some 100,000 men, from knights to paupers, took up the call--the largest mobilization of manpower since the fall of the Roman Empire. Now, in The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 402 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders -- their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads -- indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time the Crusaders reached Jerusalem, their quest -- and their violence -- had become distinctly otherworldly: blood literally ran shin-deep through the streets as the Crusaders...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
518 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With their ultimate goal, Jerusalem, finally within reach for the soldiers of the First Crusade, Demetrios Askiates, the Emperor's spy, realizes he has become ensnared in the power struggles that underlie the crusade after a diplomatic mission leads to adeadly ambush.
8) The templar
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
304 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 1095 and crusading fervor has swept Europe. Hugh de Payens and Godefroi of St. Omer, the soon-to-be founders of the Templar Order, and Hugh's younger sister, Eleanor, leave the security of their homes in Burgundy, France, with a plan to join Count Raymond of Toulouse's army, and march across the known world to Jerusalem.
9) Pilgermann
Author
Publisher
Valancourt Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Valancourt Books edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxi, 262 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II{8217}s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade{8217}s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade{8217}s untold history.
13) The silver cup
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
212 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1096, Anna, a German Catholic girl, and Leah, a German Jewish girl, strike up a remarkable friendship and make surprising discoveries about each other.
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