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Crusading They Went: The deeds and misdeeds of our spiritual kin.
As a child I was given the stories of Alfred Duggan to read. Duggan, who lived from 1903 to 1964, was an English eccentric and playboy, a college acquaintance of Evelyn Waugh's. Through the 1950s and early 1960s he produced a stream of vivid historical novels, none of them, I think, set any later than the 13th century. One of my great favorites was Knight with Armour, in which Roger de Bodeham, landless second son of an obscure Anglo-Norman family, goes off with Robert of Normandy on the First Crusade. Roger makes it all the way to Jerusalem, taking part in the final, victorious assault on the city. While fighting on the walls, he suffers an unlucky stroke from an ...
- "Crusades Scholarship".(The Experience of Crusading vols. 1-2)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Madden, Thomas F. December 22, 2005 700+ words
...truthful, even Crusades, which is a hardcover...customary venue for crusade scholarship, one...section on "The Crusades and Crusading." Turning to the First Crusade, Christopher Marshall...necessary for the crusades. The second section...Catholic Church and the Crusade," begins ...
- The Crusades.(historical books about the Crusades )
- Magazine article from: Bookmarks Benedict-Nelson, Andrew September 1, 2009 700+ words
...The Big Picture The Crusades A Short History By Jonathan...covers the concept of the Crusade--from its "birth...his argument that the Crusades were motivated by genuine...Arab Historians of the Crusades, edited and translated...Jewry and the First Crusade By Robert Chazan (1987...
- The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives.
- Magazine article from: Church History Armour, Rollin, Sr. March 1, 2002 700+ words
...be the most interesting history of the Crusades since Steven Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades. In respect to its title Hillenbrand's book resembles three other books: The Crusades through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf (New...
- Inventing the Crusades.(The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Madden, Thomas F. June 1, 2009 700+ words
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam by Jonathan...he declared. "Indeed, in the First Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem...Middle Ages. But most do believe that the Crusades started the problems that plague and endanger...
- GRAHAM CRUSADE TO STRIKE AT 'SPIRITUAL MALAISE'.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) April 1, 1990 700+ words
...big way: An eight-day Billy Graham Crusade begins in the Knickerbocker Arena three...We need something like the Graham crusade with the reality of the world we're...re hoping and praying that the Graham crusade will be the beginning of a move of God...
- GRAHAM CRUSADE DELAYED MINISTER LOSES RIB IN SURGERY.(Main)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) April 13, 1990 700+ words
...Minnesota, postponing his eight-day crusade scheduled to begin Sunday, April 22...morning, Capital District Billy Graham Crusade officials said in the afternoon that they...elaborate on the statement, but local crusade officials said Graham's convalescence...
- Crusade violence: understanding and overcoming the impact of mission among...
- Magazine article from: International Review of Mission Nayak, Abhijit July 1, 2008 700+ words
...The effects of the Crusades are numerous and damaging...concerns itself with Crusade violence in the history...examples of violence in the Crusades, this paper discusses...important aspects of the Crusades, this essay will concern...a series of violent Crusade events from an historical...
- The First Crusade in late medieval exempla.(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: The Historian MacGregor, James B. March 22, 2006 700+ words
...meaningful about the First Crusade will emerge. Second, such...information about the First Crusade was a now-lost text called...aid future scholars of the Crusades and medieval preaching in accurately...that exempla about the First Crusade were used primarily in crusade...
Source: HighBeam Research, Crusading They Went: The deeds and misdeeds of our spiritual kin.