Acre and Its Falls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Acre and Its Falls write by . This book was released on 2018-05-01. Acre and Its Falls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the crusader period Acre was in many ways a remarkable place, but the most striking thing about its history is the number of times it fell to enemies. The present volume Acre and Its Falls is unusual in that it analyses a wide range of aspects of the history of Acre across the crusader period, combining political, military and cultural history, with a notable emphasis on the memory of the city in Europe. This may have been a city famous for its falls, but most certainly not for them alone. Contributors are Adrian J. Boas, Charles W. Connell, Paul F. Crawford, Susan B. Edgington, Marie-Luise Favreau-Lilie, John France, Anna Gilmour-Bryson, John D. Hosler, Georg Philipp Melloni, Janus Møller Jensen, J. Rubin, and Iris Shagrir.
Accursed Tower
Accursed Tower - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Accursed Tower write by Roger Crowley. This book was released on 2019-11-19. Accursed Tower available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before the age of gunpowder, which left this once great Mediterranean city a crumbling ruin.The ‘Accursed Tower’ was the focal point of this siege. As the last garrison of the Crusader defences, it came to symbolise the disintegration of the old world and the rise of a new era of Islamic jihad. Crowley’s narrative is based on forensic research, drawing heavily on little known first hand sources, both Christian and Arabic. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of a pivotal moment in world history.
Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre
Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre write by Jaroslav Folda. This book was released on 2005-09-05. Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
Siege of Acre, 1189-1191
Siege of Acre, 1189-1191 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Siege of Acre, 1189-1191 write by John D. Hosler. This book was released on 2018-06-26. Siege of Acre, 1189-1191 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189–1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third Crusade, attracting armies from across Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Maghreb. Drawing on a balanced selection of Christian and Muslim sources, historian John D. Hosler has written the first book-length account of this hard-won victory for the Crusaders, when England’s Richard the Lionheart and King Philip Augustus of France joined forces to defeat the Egyptian Sultan Saladin. Hosler’s lively and engrossing narrative integrates military, political, and religious themes and developments, offers new perspectives on the generals, and provides a full analysis of the tactical, strategic, organizational, and technological aspects on both sides of the conflict. It is the epic story of a monumental confrontation that was the centerpiece of a Holy War in which many thousands fought and died in the name of Christ or Allah.
Acre 1291
Acre 1291 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Acre 1291 write by David Nicolle. This book was released on 2005-08-10. Acre 1291 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Osprey's study of the battle at Acre, one of the last campaigns of the Crusages (1095-1291). In April 1291, a Mamluk army laid siege to Acre, the last great Crusader fortress in the Holy Land. For six weeks, the siege dragged on until the Mamluks took the outer wall, which had been breached in several places. The Military Orders drove back the Mamluks temporarily, but three days later the inner wall was breached. King Henry escaped, but the bulk of the defenders and most of the citizens perished in the fighting or were sold into slavery. The surviving knights fell back to their fortress, resisting for ten days, until the Mamluks broke through. This book depicts the dramatic collapse of this great fortress, whose demise marked the end of the Crusades in the Holy Land.
