Promised Land, Crusader State

Promised Land, Crusader State
Author: Walter A. McDougall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780395901328

'Promised Land, Crusader State' is a reinterpretation of the traditions that have shaped U.S. foreign policy from 1776 to the present. Looking back over two centuries, Walter McDougall draws a striking contrast between America as Promised Land and a contrary vision of America as Crusader State.

Promised to the Crusader

Promised to the Crusader
Author: Anne Herries
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1460318633

In this medieval romance, a knight and a noblewoman endure a murderous earl and the scars of war to rekindle their childhood love. Haunted by war, Sir Zander de Bricasse is no longer the idealistic youth who left his sweetheart to join the Crusades. Years have passed and he now fully expects to find Elaine married to another. Instead, he discovers she is in grave danger. . . . Fleeing from a murderous earl, Lady Elaine is rescued by a mysterious knight—her beloved Zander! She’s never forgotten his promise to wed her, but to restore their lost love she must help this brooding, tormented stranger heal the wounds of his troubled past.

Promised to the Crusader

Promised to the Crusader
Author: Anne Herries
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2013
Genre: Knights and knighthood
ISBN: 0373306733

Haunted by war, Sir Zander de Bricasse is no longer the idealistic youth who left his sweetheart to join the Crusades. Years have passed, and he now fully expects to find Elaine married to another. Instead, he discovers she is in grave danger. Fleeing from a murderous earl, Lady Elaine is rescued by a mysterious knight--her beloved Zander! She's never forgotten his promise to wed her, but to restore their lost love she must help this brooding, tormented stranger heal the wounds of his troubled past.

The First Crusade

The First Crusade
Author: Thomas Asbridge
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2012-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1849837694

'A nuanced and sophisticated analysis... Exhilarating' Sunday Telegraph Nine hundred years ago, one of the most controversial episodes in Christian history was initiated. The Pope stated that, in spite of the apparently pacifist message of the New Testament, God actually wanted European knights to wage a fierce and bloody war against Islam and recapture Jerusalem. Thus was the First Crusade born. Focusing on the characters that drove this extraordinary campaign, this fascinating period of history is recreated through awe-inspiring and often barbaric tales of bold adventure while at the same time providing significant insights into early medieval society, morality and mentality. The First Crusade marked a watershed in relations between Islam and the West, a conflict that set these two world religions on a course towards deep-seated animosity and enduring enmity. The chilling reverberations of this earth-shattering clash still echo in the world today. '[Asbridge] balances persuasive analysis with a flair for conveying with dramatic power the crusaders' plight' Financial Times

The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam

The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam
Author: Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231146256

Claiming that many in the West lack a thorough understanding of crusading, Jonathan Riley-Smith explains why and where the Crusades were fought, identifies their architects, and shows how deeply their language and imagery were embedded in popular Catholic thought and devotional life.

How to Plan a Crusade

How to Plan a Crusade
Author: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1681775867

The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked: the massive, all-encompassing, and hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and marched off to a highly uncertain future in the Holy Land and elsewhere have never been sufficiently understood. Their actions raise a host of compelling questions about the nature of medieval society.How to Plan a Crusade is remarkably illuminating on the diplomacy, communications, propaganda, use of mass media, medical care, equipment, voyages, money, weapons, wills, ransoms, animals, and the power of prayer during this dynamic era. It brings to life an extraordinary period of history in a new and surprising way.

Promise and Peril

Promise and Peril
Author: Christopher McKnight Nichols
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674061187

Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationalism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.

The Crusades

The Crusades
Author: S.J. Allen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2014-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442606258

Since the publication of the first edition of The Crusades: A Reader, interest in the Crusades has increased dramatically, fueled in part by current global interactions between the Muslim world and Western nations. The second edition features an intriguing new chapter on perceptions of the Crusades in the modern period, from David Hume and William Wordsworth to World War I political cartoons and crusading rhetoric circulating after 9/11. Islamic accounts of the treatment of prisoners have been added, as well as sources detailing the homecoming of those who had ventured to the Holy Land—including a newly translated reading on a woman crusader, Margaret of Beverly. The book contains sixteen images, study questions for each reading, and an index.

Preaching the Crusades

Preaching the Crusades
Author: Christoph T. Maier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521638739

A study of the Dominicans' and Franciscans' propagandist role in the thirteenth-century crusades.

Crusade

Crusade
Author: Rick Atkinson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 614
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780395710838

Integrating interviews with individuals ranging from senior policymakers to frontline soldiers, a look at the Persian Gulf War shows how the conflict transformed modern warfare.