World War I is beyond the memory of almost everyone alive today. Yet it has left as deep a scar on the imaginative landscape of our century as it has on the land where it was fought. Nowhere is that more evident than on the Western Front--the sinuous, deadly line of trenches that stretched from the coast of Belgium to the border of France and ...
O'Shea chronicles both the meeting of minds and the collisions of armies that marked the interaction of Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages--the better to understand their apparently intractable conflict today.
An evocative fusion of past and present, "Back to the Front" will resonate as no other book on World War I ever has. Journalist Stephen O'Shea walked the 750 kilometers along the Western Front--the sinuous, deadly line of trenches that stretched from the Belgian coast to Switzerland--to create this remarkable combination of vivid history and ...
O'Shea eloquently chronicles the life and death of the Cathar movement, one of Western civilization's most mind-boggling tales. The extermination of these heretical Christians around 1200 A.D. unleashed the Inquisition, a terrifying new force that would torment Europe for centuries. 15 illustrations.
"The Perfect Heresy" chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's crusade against--and ultimate annihilation of--the Albigenses, or Cathars, a group of heretical Christians who thrived in what is now the Languedoc region of Southern France. Illustrations. Maps.
Radicales en sus creencias e impregnados de una profunda espiritualidad, los cataros protagonizan un periodo de suma importancia para Occidente en la historia de las ideas.Estos rebeldes de la Edad Media calificaban de fraudulentos los poderes terrenales, rechazaban el materialismo, trataban a las mujeres en terminos de igualdad, aceptaban la ...
The tallest, the wisest, the bravest (and when necessary the rudest), man in all Ireland is Finn MacCool. One day a giant comes to visit Finn with a terrible problem - somebody or something is stealing the giant king's children. Nobody knows who is doing the terrible deed, or how it is being done. Naturally, Fearless Finn cannot turn down a ...
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