Raynald of chatillon biography of rory

  • History of judea
  • British palestine
  • History of israel and palestine

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    THE TREATMENT OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS OF WAR DURING THE THIRD CRUSADE

    THE TREATMENT OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS OF WAR DURING THE THIRD CRUSADE Whether or not Imad al-Din was exaggerating when he claimed that in , the year of Hattin and the conquest of Jerusalem, Saladin freed 20, prisoners and captured ,, there is no doubt that the fate of prisoners of war played a considerable role in the diplomacy and political manoeuvring of the period. Imad al-Din al-Isfahani, Kitab al-Fath, trans. H. Massé, Conquête de la Syrie et de la Palestine par Saladin (Paris, ), There can be very little doubt that he was exaggerating - given the tendency of all chroniclers, Christian as well as Muslim, to inflate large numbers. According to Ibn al-Athir, widely acknowledged as the best Muslim historian of the time, Saladin’s decision to release some of Count Raymond of Tripoli’s knights had materially helped to precipitate the whole dramatic sequence of events. He held several of the Count’s knig

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    The Siege of Acre, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade ,

    Table of contents :
    Cover page
    Halftitle page
    Title page
    Copyright page
    Dedication page
    CONTENTS
    PLATES AND MAPS
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    ABBREVIATIONS
    MAP
    PLATES
    INTRODUCTION
    I TARGET ACRE
    Conrad and Guy
    Preparing for the Crusade
    The march to Acre
    II THE SIEGE BEGINS
    The blockade
    Probing the lines
    The October battle
    Ditches and ramparts
    Winter arrives
    III SPRING AND SUMMER
    A crescent by the cross
    The three towers
    The German crusade
    The St James offensive
    IV AUTUMN AND WINTER
    The Tower of Flies
    Losing the initiative
    The St Martin offensive
    A desperate winter
    V THE SIEGE CONCLUDES
    Philip Augustus
    Richard the Lionheart
    The summer barrage
    The beginning of the end
    VI AFTERMATH AND REPERCUSSIONS
    Acre falls
    Saladin dithers
    A war crime?
    To Arsur and beyond
    CONCLUSION
    Command and control
    Leaving Acre
    APPENDICES
    NOTES
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    INDEX

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    JOHN D.

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    Sharon: I’m
    delighted to welcome back award-winning author Jeri Westerson to talk about her
    upcoming medieval mystery BLOOD LANCE. For those of you unfamiliar with her
    work, Jeri takes a different approach to her medieval novels. She employs the
    tropes of the hard-boiled detective fiction of a Dashiell Hammett or Raymond
    Chandler and re-imagines it in the fourteenth century. What was the idea behind
    this for your “medieval noir” series and how exactly does it work?


    Jeri: The need to
    do something different, I suppose. What was going to make my series stand out above the outstanding series that were already
    out there? And when I was developing these novels, I happened to have been
    reading a lot of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. It just got me to
    thinking about why couldn’t I incorporate some of the same tropes that you
    might see in a hard-boiled mystery: the hard-drinking, tough-talking detective
    with a chip on his shoulder, the dames in trou

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