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Holy War
by Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong is the author of Islam and the recent bestseller Buddha as well as The Battle for God and A History of God. In fall 2001 she will be Scholar in Residence at Lowell House, Harvard University.
Crusades Books & Ephemera
Les Croisades Vues Par les Arabes
by Maalouf, Amin
Paris: J'ai Lu, 1983. 317p., wraps, 4.25 x 6.5 inches, wraps worn, pages evenly toned else very good pocket book. J'ai lu l'histoire.
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£9.77
Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East
by Adrian J. Boas
Routledge, London, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. to front: titles; contents; illustrations list; preface; notes of place-names; abbreviations & chronology. One of the most fascinating and intriguing aspects of historical research is the study of how invading societies adapt to a strange environment, undergoing change themselves as well as influencing their new neighbours and surroundings. From the end of the eleventh century there were...
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£12.00
Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804
by Sugar, Peter F
365 pages. Binding tight, all pages bright, white, no tears or stains. A coupe of small spots, a little corner bumping, one or two small notes. Written name of owner, K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Institute fro Advanced Study in Princeton.Professor Sugar's overview and exposition of one of the least studied areas of the Ottoman Empire and its influence on the countries of the Balkans and European provinces of the Empire. Volume V of the University of Washington Press's A History of East Central Europe.
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£32.56
Hattin 1187: Saladin's greatest victory (Campaign)
by Nicolle, David
Osprey Publishing, 1993-01-28. Paperback. Very Good +. Paperback or Wraps. Not a library copy
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£12.98
Geschichte des Ersten Kreuzzuges
by Röhricht, Reinhold, ed
267 pages. Small stain on flyleaf, bears bookplate and signature of Prof. K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Binding absolutely sound, all pages tight and bright, with perhaps a little age-darkening.Reinhold Röhricht (1842-1905) was arguably one of the most indefatigable, intensive, thorough and meticulous compilers, editors and organizers of materials relating to the history and topography of the Holy Land and the Crusades. Although not an historical synthesizer...
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£81.39
The Crusade: historiography and bibliography
by Atiya, Aziz S
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962. Hardcover. 170p. hardcover, very good, in mildly worn plain glassine dust wrapper.
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£9.77
Neshri's History of the Ottoman Empire
by Ménage, V.L
Like new except for some slight age-darkening, some slight tanning of spine and rear top edge of dust jacket and a very little wrinkling at top of dust jacket. No damage to volume itself; a coupe of light pencil marks.Victor Louis Ménage (1920 – 2015) was a British historian, Turkologist, specialist in the early Ottoman Empire, holder of the Chair of Turkish in the University of London, and an editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam. His important monograph is one of the best studies of the evolution...
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£101.74
Palestine Under the Moslems:
by Le Strange, Guy
Dust jacket: Good; shows some fraying, wear and fading of spine. Volume itself: near fine, with a very little bumping of head and heel of spine.From the library of the distinguished medievalist Prof. K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, whose signature it bears.Prof. Le Strange (1854 - 1933) was the leading British Orientalist of his time who specialized in the historical geography of the premodern Middle East and eastern Islamic domains. This is the first...
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£40.70
Les Familles d'Outre-Mer de Du Cange
by Alban Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey
The classic work on Latins in the Levant, Christian colonies and Crusader States by the eminent philologist and Medieval historian Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610-1688), corrected and completed by the distinguished archaeologist, topographer, orientalist and collector Baron Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey (1837-1916), "the father of the archaeology of the Crusades" and first published in 1869.Part of the first series of Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de FranceSome age-darkening, but all...
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£162.78
Chronicles of the Crusades
by Joinville & Villehardouin
Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A clean copy with age toning of the page edges and Previous owner's name on the first page. This volume contains two famous old French Chronicles – the conquest of Constantinople presents an authoritative and reasonably objective history of the Fourth Crusade & Life of Saint Louis. Margaret R B Shaw has done the translation of these 13th century documents. This is the first...
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£5.70
Feudal Monarchy in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem 1100-1291
by La Monte, John L
Slight fraying on heel and head of spine and on front hingeFirst edition. Signed by the author and his personal copy. Subsequently from the library of the distinguished medievalist Kenneth M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, whose signature the volume also bearsThe last endpapers contain a list of reviews of the work together with a partial list of Prof. La Monte's publications, probably in his handwriting; there are a few neat marginal notes.John L. La...
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£40.70
Le Droit Franc en Syrie pendant les Croisades
by Hayek, Dimitri
163 pages. In French. Good +; binding is sound and tight. All pages are clean, tight and intact but age-darkened, with occasional light pencil underlining and one or two very small tears due to fragility of the paper. Binding is somewhat age-darkened, spine a little tanned. From the library of Medievalist John La Monte, whose signature it bears, then the library of medievalist Kenneth M. Setton of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study, whose bookplate it bears.The Christian Lebanese Doctor of...
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£101.74
Testimonia Minora de Quinto Bello Sacro
by Röhricht, Reinhold, ed
In Latin, some French. 381 pages; plus Statutes of the Société for 1881, Number 198 of 500 printed.Very Good: some age-darkening of pages, particularly prefatory section, others quite acceptably bright. Binding completely tight and sound, all pages tight and untorn. Vol. lll des Publications de la Société de l'Orient Latin.. Bears signature and bookplate of Prof. K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Previously from the library of John L. La Monte.Reinhold...
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£122.08
Varia Antiochena
by Mayer, Hans Eberhard
In German. Prof Mayer is the Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Kiel and a renowned authority on medieval history.
In his Preliminary Remarks (Vorbemerkung) Prof. Mayer mentions that the excellent work of Prof. Claude Cahen (to whom the book is dedicated) has tended to overshadow inquiry into the important Crusader state The Principality of Antioch (1098–1287), and this work seeks to provide material to remedy that deficiency.
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In his Preliminary Remarks (Vorbemerkung) Prof. Mayer mentions that the excellent work of Prof. Claude Cahen (to whom the book is dedicated) has tended to overshadow inquiry into the important Crusader state The Principality of Antioch (1098–1287), and this work seeks to provide material to remedy that deficiency.
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£61.04
The Crusades
by Hamilton, Franklin
New York: Dial Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1965. Third Printing. Hardcover. The story of the crisades told in an engaging, approachable manner. Contains an index and a bibliography in the rear. Previous owner name on the front end paper, else a nice clean, tight and unmarked book. The dust jacket has tears & chips to top edge and top of spine, but no creases or markings. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 320 pages .
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£9.73
God of Battles Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam
by Partner, Peter
Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1997. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxvii, 364 pages. . 1st thus. Trade Paperback.
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£13.04
Quinti Belli Sacri - Scriptores Minores
by Röhricht, Reinhold, ed
In Latin, some French. 426 pages, plus Statutes of the Société for 1879. Near Fine, binding tight and sound, pages tight, bright, untorn with minimal age-darkening; tops of pages a little soiled from age, Vol. II des Publications de la Société de l'Orient Latin. No. 221 of 500 printed. Bears signature and bookplate of Prof. K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Previously from the library of John L. La Monte.Reinhold Röhricht (1842-1905) was arguably one of...
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£122.08
Soldiers of the Faith Crusaders and Moslems at War
by Finucane, Ronald
London: Phoenix. 2004. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Mild age-toning to page edges. Black & white illustrations and two-page map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 247pages. . Reprint. Softcover.
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£8.35
Markgraf Conrad von Montferrat
by Ilgen, Theodor
In German and Latin. 137 pages. Volume is solid, binding tight, all pages intact and unmarked, with a little soiling of boards, and a little age-darkening.Bears signature of former owner, Prof. K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.German archivist and historian Theodor Ilgen (1854-1924) received his doctorate in history at the University of Marburg and afterwards worked as an archivist at the state archives in Marburg, Düsseldorf and Münster. From 1900 to 1921 he was...
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La Chanson d'Antioche
by Paris, Alexis Paulin, Richard le pèlerin, Graindor de Douay
Text is first edition, one of 500 copies on laid rag paper ("papier d'Hollande" - copy # not filled in), binding probably not contemporary, Very good condition, with a little foxing, particularly in first part of volume. Includes all eight of the chansons.The famous chanson de geste in 9000 lines, known in a version of a lost original composed about 1180 and attributed to Richard le Pèlerin, a pilgrim who was on the spot and began composition during the siege of Antioch, inspired by the events of...
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£203.48
Bistümer, Klöster und Stifte im Königreich Jerusalem
by Mayer, Hans Eberhard
In German. 438 pages. Volume 26 of the distinguished series of publications of the German Monumenta Germaniae Historica Institute in Munich.Bears bookplate and signature of eminent medievalist and expert on the Crusades Prof. K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, as well as an inscription from his friend Prof. Dr. Mayer to him.15 masterful studies by H.E. Mayer, an acknowledged expert on the Crusades, of the development, governance, founding, history and rivalries among...
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Galterii Cancellarii Bella Antiochena
by Hageneyer, Heinrich
391 pages; in German and Latin. Rebound; extremely light fraying of head and heel of spine, some age-darkening, otherwise in excellent condition, with all pages tight, clear, unmarked, untorn. Bears bookplate of K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.Heinrich Hagenmeyer (1834-1914) was a groundbreaking scholar of the Crusades, whose standards for publishing and editing sources, particularly for the First Crusade, set the standard for historians ever since.Walter the...
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£162.78
Fontes Trapezuntini I
by Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Athanasios
Very Good +; very slight fading of spine, slight mark on front board.Anastatic reproduction of the 1891 St. Petersburg edition, with the text in Greek, the introduction in Russian. Volume I was the only one published. Bears bookplate of K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.Ottoman Greek (later Russian) scholar Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus (1856–1912) edited John Lazaropoulos's late 14th-century Synopsis of the life and miracles of St. Eugenios of Trabizond,...
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£28.49
