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Holy War
by Karen Armstrong
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- Used - Good
- Published
- November 27, 2001
- Binding
- Ex-library
- ISBN
- 9780385721400
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- 1
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Missoula, Montana, USA
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In 1095, with the tomb of Jesus still in the hands of infidels and the Byzantine empire overrun by Muslim Turks, Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and their swords against the Turks and then recover the holy city of Jerusalem from Islam. It was to be the first of the Crusades, a holy war… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of the City of Ladies
by Christine De Pizan
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1983-01
- ISBN
- 9780892550661
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Missoula, Montana, USA
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The pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine de Pizan has a dreamlike vision where three virtues--Reason, Rectitude and Justice--appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed… Read more about this item Item Price
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