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God's Warriors: "Crusaders, Saracens and the battle for Jerusalem" (General Military)

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Helen J. Nicholson, David Nicolle

Osprey Publishing, 2005

God's Warriors by Nicholson and Nicolle
This work describes the horrific battles leading up to the Muslim capture of Jerusalem in 1187. Saladin destroyed the Christian armies; whereupon, Richard I commenced the 3rd Crusade. Saladin was considered the greatest man in the 12th century Middle Ages. Various pieces of artwork depict the struggles of the period;namely, - a 12th and 13th century stucco of Persia depicts horsemen ...

International Mobility in the Military Orders, Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries: Travelling on Christ's ...

University Of Wales Press, 2005

International Mobility is an anthology of essays by an international team of experts on the travels of the brothers of the international military religious orders: the Templars, Hospitallers, Teutonic Knights and others, during the Middle Ages. The military orders, particularly the Templars and Hospitallers, depended on intense West-East contacts and networks of extensive geographical proportions (from Spain to the Middle East, from Scotland to ...

Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages

Ashgate Publishing, 2006

This volume brings together recent and new research, with several items specially translated into English, on the sisters of the largest and most long-lived of the military-religious orders, the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. In recent years there has been increasing scholarly interest in women's religious houses during the Middle Ages, with particular focus on the problems which they faced and the social needs which they performed. The ...

Everyday Life in Bible Times (Story of Man)
Samuel Noah Kramer, John A. Wilson, ...

National Geographic Society, 1967

National Geographic writers and photographers trace the footsteps of Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, Jesus and Paul. Commsission artists re-create bible life in vivid detail. Seven renowned authors provide research that cast a new light on the bible world. Eminent Essayists of various faiths combine respect for the bible with scientific inquiry. Includes Lands of the Bible Today map.

The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe
Nikolas Jaspert and Helen J. Nicholson

Ashgate, 2007

Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell. To mark his 75th birthday in October 2007, twenty-three colleagues from ten different countries have contributed to this volume. The first section focuses on the crusading period in the Holy Land, considering the Hospital in Jerusalem, relations with the ...

Love, War and the Grail: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval Epic and Romance, 1150-1500 ...
Helen J. Nicholson

Brill Academic Publishers, 2000

This is a study of the appearances of the Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights in the French, German and English epic and romance literature of the Middle Ages. It examines their religious roles, such as caring for the sick, their warrior role of fighting Muslims, and examines the role of "Templars" in the Grail romances. It traces how these roles developed over time and considers what function the appearances of these ...

Crusades (Crusades, 1)

Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2002

The subject of the crusades is enormous, covering 700 years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and comprising scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Although in almost every one of the many topics into which the subject is ...