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CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADES by JOINVILLE (Paperback - 1963) ISBN: 9780140441246 Subject: HISTORY (NON-ASIAN) Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS UK Mamerot¡¦s manuscript was dedicated to his patron Louis de Laval, governor of Champagne, whose inspiration was the Christian equivalent of extremist jihad - a xenophobic holy war with its origins in a Papal appeal by Urban II. Les Passages d¡¦Outremer (The Expeditions to Outremer) comprises 277 parchment folios, illustrated by Colombe and the finest caligraphers of the medieval era, and now resides in the French national library. |
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