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Accursed Tower : The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land /
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 vi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Prologue: The Accursed Tower
- 1. The Second Kingdom of Jerusalem
- 2. Death on the Nile
- 3. Between the Mamluks and the Mongols
- 4. The Lion of Egypt
- 5. A Puppy Yelping at a Mastiff
- 6. War to the Enemy
- 7. 'My Soul Longed for Jihad'
- 8. The Red Tent
- 9. 'Bolts of Th under, Flashes of Lightning'
- 10. Sorties
- 11. Negotiations
- 12. 'See the Wound!'
- 13. The Terrible Day
- 14. 'Everything Was Lost'
- Epilogue A Habitation for Snakes
- A Brief Timeline of the Holy Land Crusades
- The Evidence for the Fall of Acre
- A Note on Names
- Bibliography
- Source Notes
- Illustrations
- Index