Tag: Crusade

Free Download Aubrey Burl, "God’s Heretics: The Albigensian Crusade"
English | ISBN: 0750942576 | 2005 | 304 pages | EPUB | 603 KB
Believing in a radical separation of good and evil, flesh and spirit, the heretical medieval Cathar sect separated themselves from the rest of the world, often in soaring castles or fortified churches. The full power of the Church was unleashed against these heretics, but after an Inquisition failed to bring them back to the fold armed force was used in one of the bloodiest episodes in Christian history – the Albigensian Crusade. This stirring book recreates medieval Languedoc and the rich array of characters who died for their beliefs under the hot Provencal sun. Aubrey Burl’s new book is a vivid account of the way the Crusade and its legacy turned and twisted for over a hundred years. He focuses on the personalities on both sides, their motivations and objectives, creating for the modern reader an overwhelming impression of the powerful beliefs that drove persecutor and victim. The Albigensian Crusade and the heresy it sought to suppress were of enormous significance in medieval Europe. For the modern reader, the Crusade offers an early example of the persecution of dissident minorities that has dogged European history.

Free Download Mihai Dragnea, "The Wendish Crusade, 1147: The Development of Crusading Ideology in the Twelfth Century "
English | ISBN: 0367366967 | 2019 | 68 pages | EPUB | 207 KB
The Wendish Crusade of 1147, one of the Northern Crusades and a part of the Second Crusade, took place at a critical phase in the evolution of crusading rhetoric. The initiators and apologists of the campaign employed rhetorical devices to justify the occupation of a region and conversion of a population under the auspices of a crusade. A detailed examination of the primary sources shows that the justification of a crusade against apostates was not only a German endeavour, or the pope’s will, but a political reality of the twelfth century. Therefore, the attitude of the papacy is shown to be reactive rather than proactive.

Free Download The Subject of Crusade: Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500 by Marisa Galvez
English | April 9, 2020 | ISBN: 022669321X | 280 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives in lyric poetry, putting words to the experience of personal sacrifice and the pious struggle associated with holy war. The crusaders affirmed their commitment to fighting to claim a distant land while revealing their feelings as they left behind their loved ones, homes, and earthly duties. Their poems and related visual works offer us insight into the crusaders’ lives and values at the boundaries of earthly and spiritual duties, body and soul, holy devotion and courtly love.

Free Download The lord of Megowe: East Baltic Crusade story by Darius Musteikis, Gitana Čeponienė, Mary Ann Gove Cheatham
English | May 2, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C33F74LS | 528 pages | EPUB | 0.86 Mb
Be impressed of history of northeast Europe and Crusade in Baltic lands. In light way of a historical novel get knowledge about of major battles of 13th century between Crusaders and Baltic tribes. Understand medieval battles tactic, take look at duels. Read about intrigues, habits, food, and customs of medieval nobles and ordinary people.

Free Download The Gangs Of Zion: A Black Cop’s Crusade In Mormon Country by Ron Stallworth
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 1538765942 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 0.7 MB
New York Times bestselling author of Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth, returns with another firsthand account of trailblazing police work in the most unlikely place for a Black cop in the ’90s.

Free Download Marcus Cowper, "Cathar Castles: Fortresses of the Albigensian Crusade 1209-1300"
English | ISBN: 1846030668 | 2006 | 64 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
In the early 12th century AD a large area of present-day France was not under the direct control of the French king. In fact, the French king’s direct authority stretched little further than Paris and the area immediately around it, the Ile de France. Many of the other regions were semi-independent duchies and counties, controlled by, amongst others, the King of England and the Holy Roman Emperor. One such area free from direct French control was the Languedoc, the area stretching from the Massif Central south to the Pyrenees, and as far as the river Rhone to the east. This area was under the loose overlordship of the counts of Toulouse, and by the beginning of the 12th century the whole region had become the centre of an early form of Protestantism called Catharism that flourished to an extraordinary degree and threatened the rule of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Innocent III, alarmed at this heresy and the unwillingness of the southern nobility to do much to uproot it, launched a crusade in 1209 against European Christians. The crusading army, represented the established Church consisting predominatly of northern French knights. They saw this as an opportunity both to ‘take the cross’ and to obtain new lands and wealth for themselves more conveniently than crusading to the Holy land. This, the Albigensian Crusade, became a brutal struggle between the north and the south of France as much as between orthodox Roman Catholic and heretic Cathar.

Free Download Himmler’s Crusade By Chris Hale
2004 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 0553814451 | EPUB | 7 MB
In 1938, virtually on the eve of war, a Nazi expedition set out through British India on a mission sponsored by Himmler himself.

Free Download John France, "Warfare, Crusade and Conquest in the Middle Ages "
English | ISBN: 0367879476 | 2019 | 374 pages | EPUB | 791 KB
This volume brings together a series of articles by John France, published over a span of more than forty years, covering a number of aspects of the military and crusading history of the Middle Ages, both in Europe and the Near East. An interest in understanding how war worked and why informs a first group of articles, ranging from Carolingian armies to the organisation of war in the 13th century. The focus then turns to the Crusades, the most ambitious conquests of the era, with a set of studies on the First Crusade and others on the manner and conduct of warfare in the territories of the Latin East. The volume also includes a major unpublished analysis, co-authored with Nicholas Morton, of the problems faced by the local Islamic powers in the early Crusading period, reminding us that an army is only as strong as its enemies permit, and suggesting that the crusaders should be seen in this light.

Free Download Ben Armstrong (Author, Narrator), "Catching Up to FTX: Lessons Learned in My Crusade Against Corruption, Fraud, and Bad Hair"
English | ASIN: B0CT63ZPCJ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:58:00 | 141 MB
In Catching Up to FTX: Lessons Learned In My Crusade Against Corruption, Fraud, and Bad Hair, celebrated YouTuber and podcaster Ben Armstrong delivers the extraordinary and compelling story of the rise and fall of FTX and its well-known founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Tracking the history of crypto exchanges from the original Mt. Gox to FTX and Binance, the author describes the history of fraud that has characterized much of the industry.
Armstrong outlines the history of Alameda Research, FTX, and Sam Bankman-Fried, including a first-hand account of what he saw in the Bahamas when the indicted crypto titan was extradited from his home to face dozens of criminal and regulatory charges in the United States. He also discusses:

Free Download Rowland Brucken, "A Most Uncertain Crusade: The United States, the United Nations, and Human Rights, 1941-1953"
English | ISBN: 0875804713 | 2013 | 450 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A Most Uncertain Crusade traces and analyzes the emergence of human rights as both an international concern and as a controversial domestic issue for US policy makers during and after World War II. Rowland Brucken focuses on officials in the State Department, at the United Nations, and within certain domestic non-governmental organizations, and explains why, after issuing wartime declarations that called for the definition and enforcement of international human rights standards, the US government refused to ratify the first UN treaties that fulfilled those twin purposes. The Truman and Eisenhower administrations worked to weaken the scope and enforcement mechanisms of early human rights agreements, and gradually withdrew support for Senate ratification. A small but influential group of isolationist-oriented senators, led by John Bricker (R-OH), warned that the treaties would bring about socialism, destroy white supremacy, and eviscerate the Bill of Rights. At the UN, a growing bloc of developing nations demanded the inclusion of economic guarantees, support for decolonization, and strong enforcement measures, all of which Washington opposed.