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Błyskawiczny awans, podboje, intrygi, rycerskość i honor oto opowieść o jednym z najsłynniejszych wodzów w dziejach świata.W długiej historii konfrontacji chrześcijańskiego Zachodu ze światem islamu Saladyn jest jedną z nielicznych postaci, które szanowali nawet wrogowie. Ten obdarzony wyjątkowym talentem politycznym, świadomy swych celów przywódca zjednoczył skłócone ze sobą kraje muzułmańskie. Podbił większość państw krzyżowców i zmierzył się z królem Anglii Ryszardem Lwie Serce w jednej z najsłynniejszych bitew w dziejach średniowiecznych wojen. Ale...

Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorize cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? This title unravels the story of the Christian military expeditions that have perturbed European history.

The extraordinary character and career of Saladin are the keys to understanding the Battle of Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem and the failure of the Third Crusade. He united warring Muslim lands, reconquered the bulk of Crusader states and faced the Richard the Lion Heart, king of England, in one of the most famous confrontations in medieval warfare. Geoffrey Hindley's sympathetic and highly readable study of the life and times of this remarkable, many-sided man, who dominated the Middle East in his day, gives a fascinating insight into his achievements and into the Muslim world of his...

2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta, the influence of which is still felt today around the world. In 1215 the barons of England forced King John to sign a revolutionary document which would change the political landscape not only of thirteenth-century Britain, but of the modern world. Magna Carta was the forerunner of the constitution that limited the powers of the crown and its echoes can be found in the seventeenth-century Civil Wars, the struggles for American Independence, the work of Thomas Paine and in the bedrock constitutional legislation of just about every...

Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), this title shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not only of England but also of Europe.