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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Crusade of Nicopolis	Aziz S. Atiya	xii, 234 p. : 19 cm	OL10551124W
Geschichte der Kreuzzüge	H. E. Mayer	The second edition of The Crusades, for long the standard work on the subject, has been extensively rewritten to take account of the latest research and new interpretations. Crusading was a central t…	OL1409844W
The book of the lion	Michael Cadnum	Edmund, an apprentice coin minter, is accused of counterfeiting in this novel set in 12th-century England. In an effort to escape his punishment, Edmund becomes the squire to a knight who is joining …	OL14846W
La croix et le croissant	Renaissance catholique (Movement : France). Université d'été	1492-1992. La commémoration du cinquième centenaire de la découverte de l’Amérique a été l’occasion d’une campagne de diffamation contre les découvreurs et les évangélisateurs du Nouveau Monde. Isabe…	OL14914712W
The dagger and the cross	Judith Tarr	In the years before the Third Crusade, Prince Aidan of Rhiyana came to the Holy Land. The younger of twin sons born of a mortal king and an Elven woman, he was heir to magic – and, said many, the fin…	OL14923591W
The Crusades	Thomas Asbridge	From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume historyof the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years …	OL14936405W
The leopard sword	Michael Cadnum	A knight's squire, exhausted from the Crusades, must use his sword to fight attacking infidels during the return voyage to England.	OL15012268W
Crossed	Nicole Galland	A great number of seekers find themselves in the seemingly unreal world of the suburbs. They read spirituality books but find themselves in carpools and coaching soccer, not in monasteries. Dave Goet…	OL15136983W
Order in Chaos	Jack Whyte	The third novel in the thrilling historical trilogy about the rise and fall of the powerful and mysterious Templars, from the author of the immensely popular Camulod Chronicles.Order in Chaos begins …	OL15157217W
A Valcourt Heiress	Catherine Coulter	When Garron of Kersey returns home from the king's service to claim his title as Baron Wareham, he's shocked to find Wareham Castle very nearly destroyed by a man called the Black Demon. Accordin…	OL15369700W
Vow of seduction	Angela Johnson,Angela Johnson	Escaping from prison, warrior knight Sir Alex de Beaumont returns home to his bride only to discover that she is preparing to marry another man, and he vows to win her back by any means necessary.	OL15449099W
The king's witch	Cecelia Holland	"During the Third Crusade, deaths from fever and starvation are common, but King Richard the Lionheart has a secret ally against these impassable enemies--a mysterious healer by the name of Edythe. O…	OL15976989W
Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics	Andrew Latham	Over the past two decades or so, medieval geopolitics have come to occupy an increasingly prominent place in the collective imagination―and writings―of International Relations scholars. Although thes…	OL16142724W
The Jester	James Patterson,Andrew Gross	Hugh De Luc returns from the Crusades to discover that his terrifying nightmare has just begun. Merciless killers have slain his young son, kidnapped his wife, Sophie, and destroyed his town in their…	OL167161W
There will be wolves	Karleen Bradford	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…	OL17800545W
Guardians of paradise	Jaine Fenn	On a mission to expose evil, it's all too easy for the hunters to become the hunted ...	OL17906431W
The Boy Knight	G. A. Henty	Adventure through the times of the Crusades with Henty as he tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy’s quest through the holy land and beyond. With a cast that includes a sultan, a princess, a herm…	OL1794649W
The Normans	Hazel Martell	Describes the history, government, family life, religion, and other customs of the Normans.	OL1836511W
The last crusaders	Barnaby Rogerson	The Crusades were the bridge between medieval and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the little explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for they m…	OL18584444W
A song for Arbonne	Guy Gavriel Kay	Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbing novel beautifully creates an alternate version of the medieval world. The matriarchal, …	OL1988292W