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20 produkter
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
Häftad, 2020
279 kr
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Crusades
The War for the Holy Land
Häftad, 2020
170 kr
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'Asbridge can't help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along' The TimesA superb and definitive one-volume account of the Crusades, the impact of which still resonates to this day.In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, …
Greatest Knight
The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones
Häftad, 2021
127 kr
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‘A rip-roaring new life of Marshal … [a] splendid account of a great medieval life' Dan Jones, author of Crusaders‘A thoroughly entertaining account of England’s most colourful and courageous medieval knight’ Sunday Times Drawing upon an array of contemporary evidence, renowned historian Thomas …
Black Death
A Global History
Inbunden, 2026
443 kr
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Thomas Asbridge’s remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity’s greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity.'An up-to-the-hour work of scholarship that is at the same time a page turner... Asbridge's definitive biography of yersina pestis, the germ that …
The First Crusade: A New History
The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam
Häftad, 2005
312 kr
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In The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy princes, and barbarity on a vast scale. Beginning with the electrifying speech delivered by Pope Urban II on the last Tuesday of November in the year 1095, …
The Greatest Knight
The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
Häftad, 2015
293 kr
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First Crusade
A New History
Häftad, 2020
127 kr
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'A nuanced and sophisticated analysis... Exhilarating' Sunday TelegraphNine 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 …
Crusades
The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
E-bok, 2010
147 kr
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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 …
Greatest Knight
The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
E-bok, 2014
101 kr
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A renowned scholar brings to life medieval England’s most celebrated knight, William Marshal—providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it. Caught on the wrong side of an English civil war and condemned by his father to the gallows at age …
Richard I (Penguin Monarchs)
The Crusader King
E-bok, 2018
57 kr
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Richard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol of national identity, he barely spent six months on English soil during a ten-year reign and spoke French as his first language. Contemporaries dubbed him the …
Black Death
A Global History
Häftad, 2027
125 kr
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Thomas Asbridge’s remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity’s greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity.In the mid-fourteenth century, a lethal plague struck the medieval world, causing unimaginable suffering and destruction. This terrifying pandemic – …
Black Death
A Global History
E-bok, 2026
170 kr
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Thomas Asbridge’s remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity’s greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity.'An up-to-the-hour work of scholarship that is at the same time a page turner... Asbridge's definitive biography of yersina pestis, the germ that …
Greatest Knight
The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones
E-bok, 2015
121 kr
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‘A rip-roaring new life of Marshal … [a] splendid account of a great medieval life' Dan Jones, author of Crusaders‘A thoroughly entertaining account of England’s most colourful and courageous medieval knight’ Sunday Times Drawing upon an array of contemporary evidence, renowned historian Thomas …
First Crusade
A New History
E-bok, 2012
121 kr
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'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 …
Crusades
The War for the Holy Land
E-bok, 2012
136 kr
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In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths. Over the two hundred years that followed this First Crusade, Islam and the West fought …
