crusades

This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today.

Looks at the importance of Jerusalem as a religious center, and the changes occurring in the East and West which gave rise to the Crusades.

Ursula, condemned as a witch because of her knowledge of healing, escapes being burned to death when she joins her father and thousands of others who follow Peter the Hermit on the first Crusade from Cologne to Jerusalem in 1096.

Presents chronologically arranged primary and secondary source articles that examine some of the major political, social, and cultural events of the eleventh century.

In 1191 A.D. the orphan Tristan teams up with Robard Hode and Maryam on a dangerous mission to return the Holy Grail to Britain.

A biography of the Moslem leader who opposed the crusaders under King Richard the Lionheart.

Freddy the golden hamster and his animal cohorts, along with a computerized, robotic golden hamster, travel back in time to Assyria, where some of them are captured by crusaders and Freddy gets a taste of undomesticated living.

"Accompanies the BBC Radio series The Cross and the crescent, first broadcast beginning in January 1987"--T.p. verso. A history written from the point of the view of the Crusaders.

An illustrated account of the Crusades including a discussion of the artistic endeavors of this period.