The Crusade of Richard I, 1189-92: Extracts from the Itinerarium Ricardi, Bohãadin, Ernoul, Roger of Howden, Richard of Devizes, Rigord, Ibn Alathãir, Li Livres, Eracles, &c |
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Page 335 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 9 - Henry, by the grace of God, king of England, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou, to the convent of Christ Church, Canterbury, greeting, and by God's mercy on his return to England, peace.
Page 380 - Then he would introduce them into his garden, some four or six, or ten at a time, having first made them drink a certain potion which cast them into a deep sleep, and then causing them to be lifted and carried in. So when they awoke they found themselves in the Garden.
Page 380 - He had caused a certain valley between two mountains to be enclosed, and had turned it into a garden, the largest and most beautiful that ever was seen, filled with every variety of fruit. In it were erected pavilions and palaces the most elegant that can be imagined, all covered with gilding and exquisite painting. And there were runnels too, flowing freely with wine and milk and honey and water; and numbers of ladies and...
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Page 56 - with so many warriors here, that the town has been so long in taking." He pitched his tent so near the walls that " the enemies of Christ often shot their quarrels and arrows right up to it, and even beyond," and he at once set his engines to work against the fortifications. Richard did not reach Acre till June, and the French chroniclers say that Philip could have taken the town long before, if he had not wished the English to share in the glory of its capture. The forces had increased almost weekly,...
Page 6 - Lord of the ages had given him [Richard] such generosity of soul and endued him with such virtues that he seemed rather to belong to earlier times than these.
Page 380 - These, our servants, do so out of their love to us.' One who had been present at the assembly, told me that the speech he made was a declaration of his love to the sultan, and that on this account he had killed himself, just as his father had done for the father of the present king, and his grandfather for the king's grandfather.
Page 379 - ... parallel story in Ibn Batuta. When he was at the court of the pagan king of Mul-Java (which is certainly not Java, as the editors make it, but, as I hope to show elsewhere, Cambodia, or some country on the main in that quarter), he says, " I one day saw, in the assembly of this prince, a man with a long knife in his hand, which he placed upon his own neck ; he then made a long speech, not a word of which I could understand ; he then firmly grasped the knife, and its sharpness, and the force with...
Page 172 - Richard by the grace of God king of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to all his men who are about to go to Jerusalem by sea, greeting.
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| Title | The Crusade of Richard I, 1189-92: Extracts from the Itinerarium Ricardi, Bohãadin, Ernoul, Roger of Howden, Richard of Devizes, Rigord, Ibn Alathãir, Li Livres, Eracles, &c English history by contemporary writers |
| Author | Thomas Archer |
| Publisher | David Nutt, 1900 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 24, 2007 |
| Length | 395 pages |
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