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"Francia or Frankia, also called the Kingdom of the Franks or Frankish Kingdom (Latin: regnum Francorum), Frankish Empire, Frankish Realm or occasionally Frankland, was the territory inhabited and ruled by the Franks during the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Under the nearly continuous campaigns of Pepin of Herstal, Charles Martel, Pepin the Short, Charlemagne, and Louis the Pious?father, son, grandson, great-grandson and great-great-grandson?the...

In The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, Christopher MacEvitt marshals an impressive array of literary, legal, artistic, and archeological evidence to demonstrate how crusader ideology and religious difference gave rise to a mode of coexistence he calls "rough tolerance." The twelfth-century Frankish rulers of the Levant and their Christian subjects were separated by language, religious practices, and beliefs. Yet western Christians showed...

A bibliography of the writings of J. Frank Dobie has been needed for a number of years by libraries, students, and collectors of Dobie material. This definitive compilation by Mary Louise McVicker fills that need. While unquestionably some new items will appear, this bibliography, with subsequent revisions, will remain as the permanent listing of this unique author's contributions to the colorful history and legend of the Southwest. J. Frank Dobie...

"Collection of drawings from the Oak Park office of Frank Lloyd Wright ... best known as the 'Wasmuth' drawings ... complete with all drawings, both German and English texts"--Dustjacket.