Holy Warriors
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Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery
By James Brewer StewartNow revised to include important new scholarship, Holy Warriors, James B. Stewart's eloquent and judicious history of American abolitionism, offers a superb analysis of how the antislavery movement reinforced and transformed the dominant ...
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Holy Warriors
By Jonathan PhillipsFrom an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and ...
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Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades
By Jonathan P. PhillipsDraws on varied source material to offer insight into the Crusades and its complexities, tracing the experiences of leading figures while discussing such specific events as the origins of Saladin's jihad and the trial of the Knights Templar ...
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Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry
By Richard W. KaeuperThe blessing of religion descended on all these uses of violence. ... that if he has acted according to his order, he can go straight to Paradise.24 Such pragmatic justifications eased the clerical path to sanctified violence.
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Holy Warriors
By John J. O'NeillHistorian O'Neill examines a great variety of evidence from many specialties and reaches an astonishing and novel conclusion: Classical Greek Civilization was not destroyed by Barbarians or by Christians.
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Holy Warriors
By Amy Orr-Ewing, Frog Orr-EwingThey are a group now ingrained upon the visual imagination of the western world." Frog and Amy Orr-Ewing
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Holy Warriors: A Journey Into The Heart Of Indian Fundamentalism
By Edna FernandesIn Holy Warriors, Edna Fernandes travels to the country's recent and past theatres of religious extremism - from Kashmir to Gujarat, Punjab to Goa - to meet the generals and foot soldiers of communal wars who assert their faith in rhetoric ...
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Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery
By James Brewer StewartHoly Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery
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Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades
By Jonathan P. PhillipsBrutality, greed, honour, chivalry, the clink of chain mail, the clatter of hooves, and the call of the muezzin. Such are the ingredients of the Crusades. This book explores the...