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THE CHIVALRY, KNIGHTS, CRUSADES & HOLY GRAIL COLLECTION
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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 135 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library and covering all aspects of medieval chivalry, knights and the crusades of the Middle Ages.
The stunning archive is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in the customs and history of medieval Europe, the aspects of knighthood during that time, the great crusades and crusaders of the Middle Ages, and also that most famous of all legends – the quest for The Holy Grail.
Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely rare and hard to find. They will provide a valuable library of reference material for anyone studying the history of Europe, medieval chivalry and customs, and the knights and their crusades. The collection will also appeal to anyone with an interest in the myth surrounding The Holy Grail. The full list of titles speaks for itself!
This wonderful collection of rare books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous illustrations / photos for the reader. This is a DIGITAL item! All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.
The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:
Books on Chivalry & Knighthood:
A book of Knights banneret, Knights of the bath, and Knights bachelor, made between the fourth year of King Henry VI and the restoration of King Charles II by W. C. Metcalfe (1885)
A brief account of the military orders in Spain by G. G. King (1921)
A new dictionary of heraldry and a concise account of the most noted orders of knighthood that are or have been, and of honours and dignities ecclesiastical, civil, or military by J. Coates (1725)
Age of chivalry; or legends of King Arthur by T. Bulfinch (1863)
American members of foreign orders by J. H. Gore (1910)
An accurate historical account of all the orders of knighthood at present existing in Europe Vols.1 & 2 by L. Hanson (1802)
Belt and spur - stories of the knights of the middle ages from the old chronicles by E. L. Seeley (1884)
Bulfinch's mythology - The age of fable ; the age of chivalry ; Legends of Charlemagne by T. Bulfinch (1913)
Chivalry by F. Warre Cornish (1901)
Chivalry by L. Gautier (1891)
Chivalry in English literature - Chaucer, Malory, Spenser and Shakespeare by W. H. Scofield (1912)
Gammer Gurton's famous histories - of Sir Guy of Warwick, Sir Bevis of Hampton, Tom Hickathrift, Friar Bacon, Robin Hood, and the King and the cobbler by W. J. Thoms (1846)
Historia de las órdenes de caballería y de las condecoraciones españolas Vol. 1 Pts. 1 & 2 by J. G. Dorregaray (1864)
Historical anecdotes of heraldry and chivalry - tending to shew the origin of many English and foreign coats of arms, circumstances and customs by S. D. Dobson (1795)
History of the orders of knighthood of the British Empire Vol. 3 by N. H. Nicolas (1842)
Hurd's Letters on chivalry and romance by R. Hurd (1911)
Knighthood and chivalry by T. H. Malone (1910)
Knights and their days by J. Doran (1856)
La tradition chevaleresque des Arabes par W. B. Ghali (1919)
Les mystères de la chevalerie et de l'amour platonique au moyen âge par E. Aroux (1858)
Les origines de l'ancienne France Vols. 1 - 4 par J. Flach (1886)
Life on a mediaeval barony a picture of a typical feudal community in the thirteenth century bny W. S. Davis (1923)
L'Ordene de chevalerie; an old French poem by R. T. House (1919)
Mémoires sur l'ancienne chevalerie considerée comme un établissement politique & militaire Vols. 1 & 2 par M. Sainte-Palaye (1759)
Recherches sur la chevalerie du duché de Bretagne par A. Couffon de Kerdellech (1877)
Romances of chivalry told and illustrated in fac-simile by J. Ashton (1887)
Sherwood Forest, or, Robin Hood and Little John, with coloured engravings by A. Mills (ca. 1825)
Sir Philip Sidney type of English chivalry in the Elizabethan Age by H. Bourne (1891)
Spanish and Portuguese romances of chivalry; the revival of the romance of chivalry in the Spanish Peninsula, and its extension and influence abroad by H. Thomas (1920)
Tales of Indian chivalry by M. MacMillan (1901)
The age of chivalry by T. Bulfinch (1884)
The age of fable; or, Beauties of mythology by T. Bulfinch (c1855)
The book of orders of knighthood and decorations of honour of all nations by B. Burke (1858)
The book of the happy warrior by H. Newbolt (1917)
The broad stone of honour; or, The true sense and practice of chivalry Vols. 1 - 5 by K. H. Digby (1876)
The broad stone of honour; or, Rules for the gentlemen of England by K. H. Digby (1823)
The buke of the order of knyghthood, tr. from the French by R. Llull (1847)
The crusades by E. Gibbon (1870)
The history of chivalry and the crusades by H. Stebbing (1830)
The history of chivalry by G. P. R. James (1900)
The history of chivalry, or, Knighthood and its times Vols. 1 & 2 by C. Mills (1825)
The knights of England - a complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland Vols. 1 & 2 by W. A. Shaw (1906)
The life and adventures of Robin Hood by J. B. Marsh (ca. 1878)
The nobilities of Europe by M. de Ruvigny (1909)
The orders of chivalry by J. H. Lawrence-Archer (1887)
The story of Sir Launcelot and his companions by H. Pyle (1907)
The story of the champions of the Round table by H. Pyle (1905)
Books on the Crusades:
A study of the Crusades through a selected and annotated list of historical novels by A. L. Clinton (1903)
Annales de Terre Sainte, 1095-1291 by R. Rohricht (1884)
Anne of Geierstein by W. Scott (1800)
Chronicles and memorials of the reign of Richard I Vols. 1 & 2 by R. Stubbs (1864)
Chronicles of the crusades - being contemporary narratives of the crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion by J. A. Giles (1848)
Count Robert of Paris Vols. 1 & 2 by W. Scott (1897)
Expeditions to Prussia and the Holy Land made by Henry earl of Derby (afterwards King Henry IV.) in the years 1390-1 and 1392-3 by R. Kyngeston (1894)
Godeffroy of Boloyne; or, The siege and conqueste of Jerusalem by William of Tyre (1893)
Heroines of the crusades by C. A. Bloss (1853)
History of the crusades - their rise, progress, and results by G. Procter (1854)
I am the king; being the account of some happenings in the life of Godfrey de Bersac, crusader-knight by S. Stevens (1898)
Jerusalem and the crusades by E. Blyth (1913)
Knights and sea-kings; or, The middle ages by S. F. Smith (1894)
Memoirs of the crusades by G. de Villehardouin (1908)
Story of the crusades - with a magnificent gallery of one hundred full-page engravings by the world-renowned artist, Gustave Doré by J. P. Boyd (1892)
The age of the crusades by J. M. Ludlow (1897)
The betrothed ; tales of the crusaders and The Highland widow; Chronicles of the Canongate by W. Scott (1894)
The Crusade of Richard I, 1189-92 by T. A. Archer (1912)
The crusaders in the East - a brief history of the wars of Islam with the Latins in Syria during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by W. B. Stevenson (1907)
The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades by T. Keightley (1859)
The crusades and the crusaders by J. G. Edgar (1860)
The Crusades by G. W. Cox (1915)
The crusades; the story of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem by T. A. Archer (1900)
The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy Vols. 1 - 4 by Ordericus Vitalis (1853)
The English crusaders by J. C. Dansey (1845)
The fall of Constantinople, being the story of the fourth crusade by E. Pears (1886)
The first crusade by A. C. Krey (1921)
The fourth crusade by D. C. Munro (1896)
The history of the crusades Vols. 1 - 3 by J. Michaud (1882)
The history of the Crusades, for the recovery and possession of the Holy Land Vols. 1 & 2 by C. Mills (1821)
The history of the holy war by T. Fuller (1840)
The invasion of Egypt in A.D. 1249 (A.H. 647) by Louis IX. of France (St. Louis), and a history of the contemporary sultans of Egypt by E. J. Davis (1898)
The knights of the cross Vols. 1 & 2 by H. Sienkiewicz (1899)
The life and letters of Edward Gibbon; with his History of the crusades. Verbatim reprint, with copious index by E. Gibbon (1889)
The memoirs of the Lord of Joinville by J. Joinville (printed - 1906)
The prince and the page - a story of the last crusade by C. M. Yonge (1909)
The recovery of Jerusalem by B. K. Peirce (1851)
Winning his spurs - a tale of the crusades by G. A. Henty (1882)
Books on the Holy Grail:
Die sage von Gral von A. Birch-Hirschfeld (1877)
Die Wurzeln der Sage vom heiligen Gral - L. von Schroeder (1911)
Études sur la Queste del saint graal attribuée à Gautier Map par A. Pauphilet (1921)
In quest of the Holy Grail - an introduction to the study of the legend by S. Evans (1898)
La Queste del Saint Graal par A. Pauphilet (1923)
Le Parcival de Wolfram d'Eschenbach et la légende du Saint Graal - étude sur la littérature du moyen âge par G. A. Heinrich (1855)
Le roman du Saint Graal par F. Michel (1841)
Le Saint-Graal; ou, Le Joseph d'Arimathie; première branche des romans de la Table ronde, publié d'après des textes et des documents inédits Vols. 1 & 2 par E. Hucher (1875)
Les romans de la table ronde; mis en nouveau langage et accompagnés de recherches sur l'origine et la caractère de ces grandes compositions Vols. 1 - 5 par P. Paris (1868)
Perceval le Gallois par Chrétien, de Troyes (1866)
Perronik, the 'innocent'; or, The quest of the golden basin and diamond lance by K. S. Guthrie (1915)
Studies on the legend of the Holy Grail - with special reference to the hypothesis of its Celtic origin by A. Nutt (1888)
The hidden church of the Holy Grail by A. E. Waite (1909)
The high history of the Holy Grail by Perlesvaus (1903)
The Holy Grail by M. Leach (1916)
The Holy Grail, an explanation of the meaning of the series of panels composing Edwin A. Abbey's frieze decoration in the Boston public library by A. E. Abbey (1908)
The Holy Grail; six kindred addresses and essays by J. Scherer (1905)
The legend of Longinus in ecclesiastical tradition and in English literature, and its connection with the Grail by R. J. Peebles (1911)
The legend of Sir Perceval; studies upon its origin, development, and position in the Arthurian cycle Vols. 1 & 2 by J. L. Weston (1906)
The legend of the Holy Grail as set forth in the frieze painted by Edwin A. Abbey for the Boston Public library by S. Baxter (1904)
The mystic vision in the Grail legend and in the Divine comedy by L. A. Fisher (1917)
The story of the Grail and the passing of Arthur by H. Pyle (1910)
The vision of Sir Launfal by J. R. Lowell (1894)
Traces of a hidden tradition in masonry and mediæval mysticism by I. Cooper-Oakley (1900)
Très plaisante et recreative hystoire du très preulx et vaillant chevallier Perceval le Galloys par Chrétien, de Troyes (1918)
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