Contents: From Godfrey to Saladin -- Saladin and the Third Crusade -- The Ayyubids and the Invasion of Egypt -- The Mumluks and the Liquidation of the Crusaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorset Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.07 ARAHilliam, David.
Summary: Relates how King Richard I of England and his troops nearly wrested Jerusalem from Muslim leader Saladin and the Saracens during the Third Crusade in 1191 A.D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.18 HILArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing in-fluence. In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2001
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Summary: "For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 TYEBartlett, W. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sutton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.07 BARMadden, Thomas F.
Summary: Overview: 'God wills it!' With that cry of medieval knights a new era in European history began. Across Europe a wave of pious enthusiasm led many thousands to leave their homes, family, and friends to march to a distant land in a great struggle for Christ. Yet the crusades were more than simply a holy war. They represent a synthesis of attitudes and values that were uniquely medieval-so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Natl Book Network 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.07 MADOldenbourg, Zoe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 OLDSummary: A comprehensive history of the crusades ranges from the eleventh century to modern times and includes commentary on the art and architecture associated with the crusades and insights into the history of the knightly orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.7 OXFEdgington, Susan B
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.18 EDGBridge, Antony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.07 BRIGriffin, Mary
Summary: In 1095, Pope Urban II ordered Christians to capture Jerusalem from the powerful Muslim forces that held it. This war would become known as the First Crusade, and many more crusades followed as Muslims and Christians contended for territory in the Middle Ages. Fascinated readers will find out why these wars were waged as well as the lasting effects they had on the Western world. Maps and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.07 GRILambert, Malcolm (Malcolm D.)
Summary: “Recognizing that the Christian crusades unfolded in a world shaped by Islamic jihads, Lambert scrutinizes both militant forms of religion simultaneously. In a world where memories of crusader atrocities sustain virulent new forms of jihad, such balanced scholarship offers hope of interfaith understanding.” -- Booklist
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 LAMRegan, Geoffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1999
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Summary: Follows the efforts of Brethren member Will Campbell to discover who is sabotaging the group's peace-keeping efforts, an investigation that is hampered by a cabal of merchants that would promote war in the Middle East to increase their profits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YOURogerson, Barnaby.
Summary: The Crusades were the bridge between medieval and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the little explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for they made the crisis truly global. "The Last Crusaders" is about the period's last great conflict between East and West, and the titanic contest between Habsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.015 ROGStokes, Jonathan W.
Summary: A guide to the Middle Ages for time travelers covers such topics as the Holy Roman Empire, Vikings, the Crusades, and medieval castles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.07 STOKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KRURoesser, Marie
Summary: "The Middle Ages aren't just an uninteresting period of history trapped between ancient times and the Renaissance, as the name suggests. It's 1,000 years of fascinating historical events, including the Crusades, the Black Death, and the longest war that has ever been fought. This comprehensible book takes young historians on the journey from the beginning of medieval times--with the fall of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020