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The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades by Usama ibn Munqidh
epub |eng | 2008-07-03 | Author:Usama ibn Munqidh

§ Another Example of their Medicine Another example of their wondrous medicine was related to us by William de Bures,246 lord of Tiberias and a man with some standing among ...
( Category: History July 17,2020 )
The Secret History by Procopius
epub |eng | 2007-10-04 | Author:Procopius

Such was his statement. And the woman replied by intoning, ‘Patrician So-and-So’, and the chorus of eunuchs chanted their response: ‘That’s a mighty big hernia you’ve got there!’ When the ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
David Weber & Steve White - Starfire 4 by Shiva Option
epub |eng | | Author:Shiva Option

The system beyond Warp Point Five proved to be a distant binary, a K-type orange star and a red dwarf, each with its own small planetary family. The viewscreen in ...
( Category: Military July 17,2020 )
Njal's Saga (The Story of Burnt Njal) by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2017-06-15 | Author:Anonymous

98 There was a man called Lyting, who lived at Samsstadir. He was married to a woman named Steinvor Sigfussdottir, Thrain’s sister. Lyting was a big, strong man, prosperous but ...
( Category: Family Saga July 17,2020 )
The Alexiad (Annotated) by Anna Komnene
epub |eng | 2020-03-25 | Author:Anna Komnene

BOOK ELEVEN THE FIRST CRUSADE (1097–1104) BOHEMOND and all the counts met at a place from which they intended to sail across to Kibotos, and with Godfrey they awaited the ...
( Category: Rome July 17,2020 )
De Anima (On the Soul) by Aristotle
epub |eng | 2004-07-29 | Author:Aristotle

Chapter Two Now in our investigation of the soul, if we are in doubt about those things of which we should gain clear knowledge as we proceed, it is necessary ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3) by J. R. R. Tolkien
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

So the glad days passed; and on the eighth day of May the Riders of Rohan made ready, and rode off by the North-way, and with them went the sons ...
( Category: Epic July 16,2020 )
Iliad by Homer & David Binning Monro
epub |eng | 1950-01-02 | Author:Homer & David Binning Monro

Notes The Genealogy of the Royal House of Troy Textual Variants from the Oxford Classical Text Notes on the Translation Suggestions for Further Reading Pronouncing Glossary
( Category: Europe July 16,2020 )
Medieval Writings on Secular Women by Various Authors
epub |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Various Authors

62. A Wife Defends the Property Rights of herself and her Husband, Barcelona, 17 October 987 This document is written against the background of the aftermath of Al-Mansur’s sacking of ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 16,2020 )
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
epub |eng | 2004-05-27 | Author:Thomas Malory

Book XIV CHAPTER 1: How Sir Percival came to a recluse and asked her counsel, and how she told him that she was his aunt Now saith the tale, that ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy July 16,2020 )
King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
epub |eng | 2005-04-28 | Author:Snorri Sturluson

50. Hakon returns to Norway HAKON now left Denmark and went back north to his estates in Norway. His kinsman, Earl Orm, was dead by then. Hakon’s friends and kinsmen ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus & Euripides & Sophocles
epub |eng | 2004-08-26 | Author:Aeschylus & Euripides & Sophocles

Another is now mistress of your husband’s bed; A new queen rules in your house. [Enter JASON.] JASON I’ve often noticed – this is not the first time – What ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
Drake, David - Lord of the Isles 6 by Drake David
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Drake, David

*** “You’ll be well paid for this,” Garric said to the pair of servants who’d just given him and Liane their outer clothes. He took the rear pair of handles ...
( Category: Epic July 16,2020 )
Drake, David - Lord of the Isles 1 by Drake David
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Drake, David

CHAPTER 24 The wave broke on the shore of the island and ran well up the gentle slope, splashing and spuming as it crossed each deeply weathered channel. “Is the ...
( Category: Epic July 16,2020 )
Drake, David - Lord of the Isles 7 by Drake David
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Drake, David

* * * Double stood on the parapet chanting words of power, his face to the sea and his pudgy arms spread out to the sides. He'd thrust an athame ...
( Category: Epic July 16,2020 )

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