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The Medici weren't the only famous family of the Italian Renaisssance.
the first knight to scale the wall of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The Pazzi were also wealthy bankers, and enjoyed good commercial terms with their Medici rivals. They even sealed these ...
Cambridge University Press6y
Encountering Islam on the First Crusade
Engagingly written and supported by a wealth of evidence, Encountering Islam on the First Crusade offers a major reinterpretation of the crusaders' attitudes towards the Arabic and Turkic peoples they ...
La Brújula Verde4d
Bohemond of Taranto, the Sinister Norman Who Conquered Antioch and Hated the Byzantine Empire
There are quite a few literary and cinematic works about the First Crusade, and in most of them, beginning with the anonymous ...
University of Arkansas19h
Rome Center and Honors College Host Conference on Early Medieval Judaism
The conference, “Jews in the Frankish Orbit,” focused on a period between late antiquity and the First Crusade, which presents unique ... for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ...
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Petra lost and found
During the First Crusade, the Christian king of Jerusalem, Baldwin I, occupies Petra, now part of the barony of Karak. 1217-1276 After Saladin defeats the Crusaders in 1187, Petra returns to ...
Cambridge University Press1y
Eyewitness and Crusade Narrative
Physical Action and Gender in the Twelfth-Century Chronicles of the First Crusade and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Religions, Vol. 14, Issue. 10, p. 1251. The idea of what an "eyewitness" account ...
Trench Crusade unchains the grimmest, darkest sci-fi miniatures universe
From an influential Diablo concept artist and the co-designer of Mordheim comes the highly anticipated new game ...
BBC18y
Holy wars
Modern people often regard the idea of a holy war as a contradiction. Killing thousands of people and causing wholesale destruction seems to be as far from holiness as one can get. But religion ...
The Jerusalem Post on MSN9d
Wikipedia in Arabic: A hotbed for bigotry, misinformation, and bias - investigative report
Disinformation, generalizations, and outright lies are allowed to go unchecked on the free encyclopedia's Arabic version.
thecrimsonwhite20dOpinion
Opinion | If politics is downstream from culture, conservatives lose
One of American conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart’s longest-lasting influences is the claim that politics is ...
University of Bristol10mon
Dr Simon Parsons
(Boydell, 2018), 55–74 ‘Making Heroes out of Crusaders: The Literary Afterlife of Crusade Participants in the Chanson d'Antioche’, in Jerusalem the Golden: The Origins and Impact of the First Crusade, ...
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The Medici weren't the only famous family of the Italian Renaisssance.
the first knight to scale the wall of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The Pazzi were also wealthy bankers, and enjoyed good commercial terms with their Medici rivals. They even sealed these ...