A new and accessible history of the crusades, covering the nine Middle-Eastern crusades along with the less-well-known European ones

To obtain the Holy Grail... ...he must face The Demon King! Ser Domingo of the Kingdom of Castille-Leon must confront horrors such as he's never seen after a hard battle to win Jerusalem in the first crusades. He is transported to another realm where he must run the gauntlet of strange, magical creatures. But while there, he learns there is a prophecy to fulfill, one that means more than a simple holy relic, but he holds the fate of this realm and perhaps all of the lands beyond in his hands! Fans of classic fantasy comics like Conan The Barbarian and Prince Valiant will love Deus Vult!

"The year is 1095. The most prominent leaders of the Christian world have assembled in a meadow in France near Clermont. Pope Urban appeals for the liberation of Jerusalem and cries out Deus Lo Volt! God Wills It! The cry is taken up, echoes forth and is carried on. Wave upon wave of Christian pilgrims rush to assault the growing power of Muslims in the Holy Land and will do so for the next two hundred years. Most able men become soldiers of the Cross, and when a man is prevented by old age or ill health, he sends his son. Women, too, go to fight alongside the men. It is a time of great adventure, of great exploration and cultural change. Uniting Christian Europe in a common cause, the crusades defined forever the spirit of the West.

The title of this book, also the title of my poem I Swim in Seas of Thirty-Two Legions, reflects all I ve felt I swam. For every strange, forbidden thought that one would not dare to speak out loud read mine and find comfort in that we all carry a full moon. At times I choose to bear it all and at times I flirt with words riddles. You question yourself, your partners, your children, your vocations, and humanity. Without these questions one would never grow, one would never see all their purpose. So I invite you to dance, swim, fly, and even sink with me in open oceans, dark skies, and on earthbound sands. Angel... Even if you Break My Heart... you'll always be my angel... because you gave my poems wings... Wings to Fly!

Jerusalem, 1099 AD, was the central focus of the First Crusade, the holy war between Christian Crusaders and the Saracens. Passionately motivated by the sight of their Holy City, the Crusaders stop and wait for orders to assault the citys stone walls. In that moment of hesitation, wing-walkers Kate Phillips and Jen Fillmore are pulled from twenty-first century Earth World and hurled into the land of Domar in Bigna World. The two find their lives caught in a world of medieval knights and scaly beasts, far from their high tech world. Brought to Domar to find a cure for the Bs plague spreading throughout Domar, Kate and Jen are plunged into the deep, mystical chambers of Rapio, the sinister, dark Prince of Bigna. The fate of Jerusalem 1099 AD hangs on their actions in Domar. Blasting Trumpets, the second book in The Locket Chronicles, is a continuation of the life journey of two characters, Kate and Jen, who first appeared in The Morgan Chronicles, the first series by Carole Bailey.

In 1095, Pope Urban II called on the kings and knights of Europe to liberate the Holy Land in a great crusade. As one they lifted their voices to Heaven, crying deus vult - God wills it! This cry was taken up by thousands of knights and peasants, martyrs and madmen, as a great tide of righteous fury flooded across the world. This cry was heard in the shadows, too. Since the days of the apostles, a secret order of warrior monks guarded the church and protected Christendom from all enemies, both natural and supernatural. Trained from birth and equipped with lost secrets of ancient civilisations, this secret order also hears the call to crusade. Deus vult - God will it, and they are the instruments of His divine Will. It is the closing years of the twelfth century. Saladin has reconquered the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the holy city is once more in the hands of the Saracen. Heresies and sorcery rot Europe from within, while the nobles quarrel and bicker. Even the church is falling prey to this corruption. The world must be saved, through any means necessary. No enemy, no sorcery, no doubt and no fear will prevent the monks of the Order from carrying out the Will of God. Deus Vult!

The edition of the "Geistbuch", a Middle High German treatise on the Christian path to perfection from the first half of the 14th century, which also circulated in the Netherlands, gives insights into vernacular theological discussions from the time of the trial against Meister Eckhart. Die Edition des "Geistbuchs", eines mittelhochdeutschen Traktats über den christlichen Weg zur Vollkommenheit aus der ersten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, der auch in den Niederlanden zirkulierte, bietet Einblick in die volkssprachlichen theologischen Diskussionen aus der Zeit des Prozesses gegen Meister Eckhart.