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Blood, Fire & Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici
A brilliant and beautifully written deep dive into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as profoundly as they shaped the course of history.
Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
Exploring the role women played in the governing of the Middle East during periods of intense instability, and how they persevered to rule and seize greater power for themselves when the opportunity presented itself.
John Hunyadi & the Late Crusade: A Transylvanian Warlord against the Crescent – From Retinue to Regiment
The book aims to present the life and military exploits of one of the biggest commanders in European medieval history.
The Healing Practices of the Knights Templar & Hospitaller: Plants, Charms, & Amulets of the Healers of the Crusades
During the Crusades, chivalric knightly orders, such as the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitaller, brought along monastic mediciners to treat the sick and wounded. These mediciners not only employed the leading cures of medieval Europe but also learned new methods from the local folk-healers and Arabic healing traditions they encountered on their journeys.
Bohemond of Taranto: Crusader & Conqueror
Few substantial accounts of the life of this remarkable warrior have been written and none have been published in English for over a century – and that is why this absorbing new study by Georgios Theotokis is of such value.
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
By telling intimate stories of individual journeys, Jones illuminates these centuries of war not only from the perspective of popes and kings, but from Arab-Sicilian poets, Byzantine princesses, Sunni scholars, Shi'ite viziers, Mamluk slave soldiers, Mongol chieftains, and barefoot friars.
The Knights Hospitaller: The History & Legacy of the Medieval Catholic Military Order
The Knights Hospitaller: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Catholic Military Order chronicles the known history of the order and examines the secrecy and mysteries surrounding it. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Knights Hospitaller like never before.
The Knights Templar at War 1120–1312
The order was founded as a response to attacks on pilgrims in the Holy Land, and it was involved in countless battles and sieges, always at the forefront of crusading warfare. This absorbing study examines why they were such an important aspect of medieval warfare on the frontiers of Christendom for nearly two hundred years.
God’s Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
An epic saga set in the midst of a violent clash of civilizations, God’s Wolf is the fascinating story of an exceptional crusader and a provocative reinterpretation of the crusading era.
The Sultan and the Saint – The Crusades
Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked a century of war, distrust, and insidious propaganda in a search for mutual respect and common ground. It is the story of Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt, and their meeting on a bloody battlefield during the period of Christian- Muslim conflict known as the Crusades.
The Templars: The Secret History Revealed
Barbara Frale gives us an explosive, exhaustively researched history of the medieval world’s most powerful military order, the Templars.
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
An authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages.
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