1855 HEROINES OF CRUSADES KNIGHTS TEMPLAR HOLY LAND WAR FREEMASONRY MUSLIM ARAB

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HEROINES OF THE CRUSADES. By C.A. Bloss. Published in 1855 by Alden & Beardsley, Auburn and Rochester, New York. 9” x 6" hardcover elaborately decorated with gilt. Illustrated with engravings. 496 pages.
Condition:
GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior as shown in photos. Good, firm binding. Text is clean and complete, some foxing, heavier at steel-engraved plates. No torn, loose or missing pages. Original owner signature on front endpaper. A nice example of this very rare mid-19th-century book.
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HEROINES OF THE CRUSADES
From the Preface
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Thus began the Crusades, those romantic expeditions which, combining religious fervor with military ardor, united the various nations of Europe from the shores of the Baltic to the Straits of Gibraltar, and from the banks of the Danube to the Bay of Biscay, in one common cause, and poured the mingled tide of fanatics, warriors and adventurers, upon the plains of Asia.
For nearly two centuries the mightiest efforts and best blood of Christendom were wasted in the useless struggle, and it is computed that not less than six millions of people devoted their lives and fortunes to this desperate undertaking. But though the Crusades are so important to the historian as involving the politics of all nations; to the philosopher as fraught with consequences affecting the happiness of succeeding generations; and to the scholar as commencing the era when Genius, brooding over the ruins of the Past, rose Phoenix-like from tho ashes of Arabian splendor, and soaring in the clearer light of Christianity, scattered from her wing the dew of refinement upon the barbarians of the North; yet the general reader feels that his knowledge of them is so vague as to detract materially from his pleasure in allusions to them, and continually to force upon his mind a painful sense of ignorance upon points where he ought to be informed.
In some measure to supply a deficiency which common history cannot obviate, to make the period of the Crusades interesting, by giving to it the tangible thread of authentic narrative, these biographies of the "Heroines" who inspired the troubadour, animated the warrior, or in person "took the cross," have, with much care and labor, been selected and compiled.
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Contents Are:
Adela of Blois
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Berengaria of Navarre
Isabella of Angoulene
Violante of Jerusalem
Eleanora of Castile
First Crusade, A.D. 1090
Second Crusade, A.D. 1147
Third Crusade, A.D. 1187
Fourth Crusade, A.D. 1198
Fifth Crusade, A.D. 1203
Sixth Crusade, A.D. 1215
Seventh Crusade, A.D. 1249
Eighth Crusade, A.D. 1272
Remember folks, this is an 1855 original. This book is 166 years old.
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