For the first time ever, this book offers a much-needed comprehensive and introductory overview of the tumultuous era of the Crusades. číst celé
Helena P. Schrader Knihy
Helena se inspiruje svými rozsáhlými mezinárodními zkušenostmi a láskou k historii, aby vytvářela podmanivá historická fikční díla. Její próza se vyznačuje hlubokým pochopením různých kultur a lidských motivací, což čtenářům umožňuje ponořit se do minulosti. Prostřednictvím svých pečlivě prozkoumaných románů se ponořuje do složitých témat odboje, mezinárodních vztahů a odolnosti lidského ducha. Helena píše s cílem spojit čtenáře s minulostí a nabídnout jim pohled na trvalé lidské dilema.
Balian, the landless son of a local baron, goes to Jerusalem to seek his fortune. Instead, he finds himself trapped into serving the young prince suffering from leprosy, an apparent sentence to obscurity and death. But the unexpected death of King Amalric makes the leper boy King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, and Balian’s prospects begin to improve. The Byzantine princess Maria Comnena is just thirteen years old when she arrives in the Kingdom of Jerusalem at her great uncle’s orders to cement the alliance between the two Christian kingdoms in the East. The child wife of a man almost three times her own age, she is despite her excellent education and intelligence little more than a pretty doll in the eyes of her husband. When she fails to produce a male heir for the desperate king, her marriage becomes a gilded prison. Until suddenly the king is dead and Maria finds herself a wealthy widow at just twenty years of age. Meanwhile, the charismatic Kurdish leader Saladin has united the forces of Islam and vowed to drive the Christians into the sea. While King Baldwin IV—and Balian—struggle to save the Holy Land for Christendom by whatever means they can, the internal rivalries of Templars and Hospitallers, the advocates of offense and defense, and the bitter rivalries of barons threaten to tear the kingdom apart.
Envoy of Jerusalem: Balian d'Ibelin and the Third Crusade, Book III in the Jerusalem Trilogy
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