71 results for 'Activity Crusades'

Guidance for the modern perplexed. In this selection of critical and provocative essays, the author examines many of our popular beliefs about culture, science, psychology and psychotherapy. It...

Guillaume Caoursin, the Vice-chancellor of the Order of the Hospital, wrote the Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio (Description of the Siege of Rhodes) as the official record of the Ottoman siege of...

This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060-1100), a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99), and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem...

Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 is the first study of donations to the Knights Hospitaller throughout England and Ireland during the late-thirteenth and...

According the author, this work was inspired by a comment credited to Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nigerian foremost playwright, poet, novelist, and Nobel laureate, describing the present generation of...

Mother Earth is Weeping is a little book of hope.We are experiencing challenging times with climate change and pollution, burning rainforests and filling our oceans with plastic. There is also unfair...

If you're a fan of medieval history, knights, and castles, then the Knights and Castles Coloring Book is the perfect activity for you. This coloring book is designed for girls, boys, kids, and teens...

This book presents the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: Jules Isaac. This embrace...

Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the second in a roughly chronological series, explores the...

Conway is a peaceful southern town. Or is it? Across the river from this quiet burg is a row of saloons, and Maude, a feisty octogenarian, believes something doesn't feel right. Along with a young...

A Rhyfler is only as Good as His BootsIt is early winter, 1772. Alwyd is still gripped by the fierce struggle between Alykinder's Crusaders and the last Royalist holdouts. Factories produce aerocraft...

What are the Ashes Crying For?In Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, Babi Yar, Ukraine, and in many more locations, the blood of the Jewish people was either spilled or became ashes. This blood...

Researchers are always referring to the fact that alquerque or Quirkat was being played throughout Egypt. In this sense we have to take into account that with regards to the alquerque games we have...

There was a time seven centuries ago when Famagusta's wealth and renown could be compared to that of Venice or Constantinople. The Cathedral of St Nicholas in the main square of Famagusta, serving as...

This rare and valuable resource lists the members of the Balley Brandenburg, a chapter of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, a venerable order of chivalry dating back to the Crusades. The Knights...

Often overlooked, the student demonstration at Bowling Green State University was the first and most successful 1960s campus protest - and a key point in the transition from 1950s social mores to...

Knights of the sword and CrossThe principal tenets of the chivalric code of the Christian Knights of the middle ages were to fear God, to protect the afflicted and to serve ones master faithfully...

The Templar's Daughter is a historically based fantasy, set amid the many trade routes between Jerusalem, Arabia and India, during the First Crusade. In 1099 A.D., when Jerusalem is annexed to the...

Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt...

As early as 1946, French film critic Nino Frank was able to identify a new trend in the American film industry, one that he labeled film noir. Loosely translated, the term described movies that had...

Although there is an established historiography on women's roles during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9), little has been written on Nationalist women in the Republican-held zones. Women were the...

The Enchanted Opal explores the "dream" world of a young girl from the 21st Century, and the "struggle to survive" of a young boy from the 11th Century, each who overcome heartbreak and calamity...

Lucia is an active child whose curiosity and behavior tend to get her into trouble. At the age of thirteen, she inherits the Condado of Segoia from the presumed death of her father, Don Fernando, who...

A genre-bending parody of the evolution of American politics. The Democracy Dramaturgy is told from the perspective of a cynical deadhead named Mo, who, via the wonders of extraterrestrial...

Cast into a bustling society teeming with fine art and fortune, Audrey Coltrane, a popular freelance shutterbug turned bankroller, leaves her cushy life in Philadelphia to immerse herself in the...

Anarchism-literally, a society without government-is less a political philosophy than it is a temperament. Anarchists are defiant people who seek to organize for the purpose of destroying...