Eleanor of Aquitaine: A BiographyHawthorn Books, 1977 - 389 pages Biography of the wife of King Henry II of England and mother of Richard I, the Lionheart, and John. |
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... Charlemagne , as well as a great warrior in his own right . Chansons of later centuries would embroider his feats with brilliant threads of mythology , recount- ing victorious deeds against terrible Saracen giants , transforming his ...
... Charlemagne , as well as a great warrior in his own right . Chansons of later centuries would embroider his feats with brilliant threads of mythology , recount- ing victorious deeds against terrible Saracen giants , transforming his ...
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... Charlemagne , who , according to generally accepted tradition , had made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem . " Popular legend had it that a Christian monarch , perhaps a reincarnation of Charlemagne , would bring about the millenium by tak ...
... Charlemagne , who , according to generally accepted tradition , had made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem . " Popular legend had it that a Christian monarch , perhaps a reincarnation of Charlemagne , would bring about the millenium by tak ...
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... Charlemagne . That had been the picture in Louis the Fat's mind on the day he learned of Duke William IX's death , that had been the vision that had sustained Abbot Suger these many years . As both of them understood , however ...
... Charlemagne . That had been the picture in Louis the Fat's mind on the day he learned of Duke William IX's death , that had been the vision that had sustained Abbot Suger these many years . As both of them understood , however ...
Contents
The Devil and the Monk | 33 |
Behind the Red Cross | 59 |
To Jerusalem | 81 |
Copyright | |
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