A History of the Crusades (Storpocket)
avSteven Runciman
ISBN: 9780140137040 - UTGIVEN: 199007This volume describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin.[...]
A History of the Crusades (Storpocket)
avSteven Runciman
ISBN: 9780140137057 - UTGIVEN: 199004Runciman examines the revival of the Frankish kingdom at the time of the Third Crusade until its collapse a century later. The various themes of the book include: Christiandom, the replacement of the cultured Ayubites by the less sympathetic Mameluks as leader of the Muslem world, and the coming of [...]
A History of the Crusades (Storpocket)
avSteven Runciman
ISBN: 9780140137064 - UTGIVEN: 199103In this first volume of three, Runciman recounts the capture of Jerusalem by Christian knights.
The White Rajah (Häftad)
avSteven Runciman
ISBN: 9780521128995 - UTGIVEN: 2010-06The Sultan of Brunei gave the title of Rajah and sovereignty of Sarawak, a province of Borneo, to James Brooke in 1841 as a reward for helping to peacefully resolve an uprising in the region. Brooke established his reign over the area, and two further Brooke descendants ruled Sarawak as a British pr[...]
The Byzantine Theocracy (Pocket)
avSteven Runciman
ISBN: 9780521545914 - UTGIVEN: 2004-06The constitution of the Byzantine Empire was based on the conviction that it was the earthly copy of the Kingdom of Heaven. Just as God ruled in Heaven, so the Emperor, made in his image, should rule on earth and carry out his commandments. This was the theory, but in practice the state was never fr[...]
The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese (Häftad)
avSteven Runciman, John Freely
ISBN: 9780674034051 - UTGIVEN: 200906Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the most dramatically beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth, and romance. Following the Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese in the thirteenth century, William II of Villehardouin built a [...]
The Fall Of Constantinople 1453 (Pocket)
avSteven Runciman
ISBN: 9781107604698 - UTGIVEN: 2012-03-26This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453 came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom.[...]
The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century (Pocket)
avSteven Runciman
ISBN: 9781107604742 - UTGIVEN: 2012-03-29In this book, sustained narrative power is displayed with concentrated brilliance in the rise and fall of this fascinating episode.[...]
Lost Capital Of Byzantium (Pocket)
avSteven Runciman
ISBN: 9781845118952 - UTGIVEN: 2009-04-30Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the dramatically beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth and romance. This title tells the story of this once-great city - its rise and fall and its place in the history of the Peloponnese a[...]
