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Free Download English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Marcel Elias
English | October 31, 2024 | ISBN: 1108832210 | True PDF | 252 pages | 3.8 MB
The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) witnessed the production of a substantial corpus of Middle English crusade romances. Marcel Elias places these romances in dialogue with multifarious European writings to offer a novel account of late medieval crusade culture: as ambivalent and self-critical, animated by tensions and debates, and fraught with anxiety. These romances uphold ideals of holy war while expressing anxieties about issues as diverse as God’s endorsement of the crusading enterprise, the conversion of Christians to Islam, the sinfulness of crusaders, and the morality of violence. Reinvigorating debates in medieval postcolonialism, drawing on emotion studies, and excavating a rich multilingual archive, this book is a major contribution to the cultural history of the crusades.

Free Download Women and the Crusades by Helen J. Nicholson
English | May 23, 2023 | ISBN: 0198806728 | 304 pages | MOBI | 2.12 Mb
The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration…

Free Download Jan Guillou, "The Templar Knight: Book Two of the Crusades Trilogy"
English | 2010 | pages: 484 | ASIN: B003H4I5TO | EPUB | 0,6 mb
As a knight battles to protect the Holy Land, his beloved lies captive in a convent in the 2nd entry in this thrilling historical epic trilogy.

Free Download The Crusades Through Arab Eyes By Amin Maalouf
2006 | 293 Pages | ISBN: 0863560237 | EPUB | 1 MB
European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. In "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes", Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. He retells their stories in their own vivacious style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts, and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. He retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, and offers fascinating insights into some of the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

Free Download L. D. Luard, "Stories from the Crusades"
English | 2005 | pages: 92 | ISBN: 1599150549 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Brings the Crusades to life through stories of its most famous participants. Relates how Peter the Hermit, with the Pope’s blessing, gathers men to his side and leads the first crusade, resulting in the capture of Jerusalem and installation of Godfrey as defender of the holy sepulchre. After the Muslims recapture Jerusalem, three great kings of Europe vow to regain the Holy City: King Richard the Lionhearted of England, King Philip of France, and the Emperor Frederick of Germany. Despite winning many battles in this third crusade and capturing the city of Acre, they fail to win back the city of Jerusalem. King Louis of France launches the last crusade, but dies before achieving his objective. Throughout the narrative we meet all sorts of men. Some, like Bohemond and Baldwin, fight for selfish ends; others, such as Tancred and Louis, do battle like the great knights they are; while a few, Francis among them, carry goodwill wherever they go.

Free Download How the Crusades Changed History [TTC Audio]
English | August 13, 2013 | ASIN: B00EIQ3X0G | M4B@96 kbps | 11h 52m | 492 MB
Lecturer: Philip Daileader
Centuries have passed since the last crusader knight laid down his sword, but the Crusades continue to hold sway over our world. Because the Crusades have been so consequential to history, it’s essential to understand the context, motivations, and preconditions of these dramatic military campaigns. In doing so, you’ll not only get a fresher understanding of the Crusades, you’ll discover surprising truths about why (and how) they were fought.
More than just an enriching recount of events, this series of 24 lectures is an intellectually rewarding exploration of how the Crusades shaped the medieval world and laid the seeds for our own. Plunging you into the series of Crusades to the Holy Land and elsewhere – from the calling of the First Crusade in 1095 to the collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, in 1291 – Professor Daileader’s lectures are filled with eye-opening insights and gripping stories that will help you reach your own conclusions about just how important these centuries of warfare were to the story of human civilization.

Free Download The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (Audiobook)
English | August 16, 2016 | ASIN: B01H41C1TU | M4B@64 kbps | 25h 32m | 745 MB
Author: Thomas Asbridge | Narrator: Derek Perkins
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge-a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)-covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history.
From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge’s book is a magnificent epic of Holy War between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.

Free Download Christopher Tyerman, "The World of the Crusades"
English | ISBN: 0300217390 | 2019 | 520 pages | PDF | 22 MB
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders

Free Download TTC – How the Crusades Changed History
Released 11/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 24 Lessons ( 11h 27m ) | Size: 9.55 GB
The Crusades, launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II, were a series of holy wars led by European Christians, aimed at contesting Muslim power and establishing Christian rule of the Holy Land. In their aftermath, the Crusades left a significant impact on their era as well as on future centuries, and their effects are directly visible even in our own time

Free Download Jonathan Phillips, "Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades"
English | 2010 | pages: 464 | ISBN: 1400065801, 184595078X | EPUB | 4,5 mb
From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players-knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes-from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of today’s wars.