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A booke of days : a novel of the Crusades

Title: A booke of days : a novel of the Crusades / Stephen J. Rivele.
Author: Rivele, Stephen J., 1949-
Publication: New York : Carroll & Graf, 1997.

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Description

436 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

The First Crusade seen through the eyes of a young French nobleman. In 1096 the Duke of Lunel is one of 30,000 knights and peasants to answer Pope Urban II's call for the liberation of Jerusalem from the Muslims. On arrival in the Holy Land he falls in love with a Turkish poetess who becomes pregnant with his child. The novel describes the gory fighting and traces Lunel's disillusion as he discovers the reality behind the rhetoric. A first novel.

Subject

Genre/Form

Historical fiction.
Fiction.

ISBN

0786703482
9780786703487

LCCN

96036795

OCLC

ocm35651073
35651073
SCSB-380336

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library