item: #1 of 13
          id: 12308
      author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
       title: Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
        date: None
       words: 97190
      flesch: 75
     summary: Am I mad, he said, or dreaming, or is this really Sir Cuthbert? It is I sure enough, Cuthbert exclaimed, although truly I look more like a Bedouin soldier than a Christian knight. I beseech your Majesty to bestow her in marriage, when the time comes, upon Sir Cuthbert.
    keywords: archers; arms; army; attack; baron; body; castle; city; cnut; convent; country; course; cuthbert; day; days; distance; door; earl; england; english; evesham; father; fell; force; forest; french; good; hand; holy; horse; john; king; king richard; knights; lady; life; man; margaret; men; news; party; place; prince; return; round; rudolph; sir cuthbert; thought; time; town; walls; way
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: 13354
      author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
       title: The Boy Knight: A Tale of the Crusades
        date: None
       words: 97906
      flesch: 75
     summary: Am I mad, he said, or dreaming, or is this really Sir Cuthbert? It is I, sure enough, Cuthbert exclaimed, although truly I look more like a Bedouin soldier than a Christian knight. When your eyes are closed, Sir Walter, Sir Cuthbert shall be Earl of Evesham, and, when the time comes, the husband of your daughter.
    keywords: archers; arms; army; attack; baron; body; castle; city; cnut; convent; country; cuthbert; day; days; distance; door; earl; england; english; evesham; father; fell; force; forest; french; good; hand; holy; horse; john; king; king richard; knights; lady; life; man; margaret; men; news; party; place; prince; return; round; rudolph; sir cuthbert; sir rudolph; thought; time; town; walls; way
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: 26671
      author: Edgar, John G. (John George)
       title: The Boy Crusaders: A Story of the Days of Louis IX.
        date: None
       words: 65757
      flesch: 71
     summary: reigned as King of England, and the feudal system, though no longer rampant, was still full of life and energy; when Louis King of France, afterwards canonised as St. Louis, undertook one of the last and most celebrated of those expeditions known as the Crusades, and described as 'feudalism's great adventure, and popular glory.' At that time Louis King of France, then not more than thirty, but already, as we have seen, noted for piety and valour, was stretched on a bed of sickness, and so utterly prostrate that, at times, as has been related, he was thought to be dead.
    keywords: army; battle; bisset; caliph; castle; chapter; city; count; cross; crusaders; damietta; danger; day; earl; english; espec; faith; france; french; god; good; great; guy; hand; head; henry; holy; joinville; king; king louis; knight; lord; louis; man; mansourah; men; moment; muschamp; saracens; sir; sultan; time; truth; walter; warriors; way
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: 2762
      author: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider)
       title: The Brethren
        date: None
       words: 129644
      flesch: 87
     summary: All were very merry with wine and strong ale, and talk arose among them as to which of these brethren--Sir Godwin or Sir Wulf--was the more brave, the more handsome, and the more learned and courteous. Proper men, the pair of you; but Sir Wulf most warriorlike, and Sir Godwin most courtly. Now which do you think would please a woman most? That, sir, depends upon the woman, answered Godwin, and straightway his eyes began to dream.
    keywords: andrew; answer; beneath; blood; brethren; brother; day; dead; death; die; eyes; face; fear; godwin; hand; hassan; head; heart; horses; jerusalem; knight; know; lady; left; length; life; lord; love; lozelle; man; masouda; men; nay; place; princess; rosamund; rose; saladin; salah; save; sinan; sir; sir godwin; sultan; sword; thought; time; voice; woman; words; wulf
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: 392
      author: Tasso, Torquato
       title: Jerusalem Delivered
        date: None
       words: 128119
      flesch: 68
     summary: V The Cyclades seemed to swim amid the main, And hill gainst hill, and mount gainst mountain smote, With such great fury met those armies twain; Here burnt a ship, there sunk a bark or boat, Here darts and wild-fire flew, there drowned or slain Of princes dead the bodies fleet and float; Here Caesar wins, and yonder conquered been The Eastern ships, there fled the Egyptian queen: VI Antonius eke himself to flight betook, The empire lost to which he would aspire, Yet fled not he nor fight for fear forsook, But followed her, drawn on by fond desire: XXXVI Great Prince, quoth Tancred; set before thine eyes Rinaldo's worth and courage what it is, How much our hope of conquest in him lies; Regard that princely house and race of his; He that correcteth every fault he spies, And judgeth all alike, doth all amiss; For faults, you know, are greater thought or less, As is the person's self that doth transgress.
    keywords: argantes; armed; arms; blood; bold; bright; bring; camp; cast; christian; courage; day; dear; death; doth; earth; eyes; face; fair; fall; fear; fell; fierce; fight; fire; foes; force; forth; fortune; godfrey; good; great; guide; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; hold; hope; king; knight; laid; land; lay; left; let; life; like; looks; lord; love; man; men; naught; oft; pagan; place; power; praise; prince; proud; quoth; rest; rinaldo; saw; secret; set; shall; shield; slain; stood; strange; strength; strong; sweet; sword; tancred; thee; thine; thou; thought; thy; time; town; vain; war; way; words; wrath
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: 39701
      author: Bloss, C. A. (Celestia Angenette)
       title: Heroines of the Crusades
        date: None
       words: 156659
      flesch: 65
     summary: Great men sent their sons to them for instruction, and the Knights Hospitallers soon became a powerful monastic and military order. The people thronged round him in the streets, and while the nobles and prelates were debating on the claims of Robert, the populace, whose allegiance he secured by the promise of English laws and an English Queen, made the city resound with loud shouts of Long live King Henry.
    keywords: acre; adela; arms; army; beauty; berengaria; blood; bride; brother; care; castle; cause; chapter; children; christian; church; city; count; countess; cross; crown; crusade; daughter; day; days; death; duke; earl; edward; eleanora; elsiebede; emperor; england; english; europe; eva; eyes; face; fair; father; france; french; god; good; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; henry; holy; house; husband; jerusalem; john; king; knight; lady; left; life; light; lord; louis; love; man; maude; men; mind; monarch; mother; new; noble; normandy; note; palestine; people; place; pope; power; presence; prince; princess; queen; rest; return; richard; robert; rose; royal; sea; set; sir; sister; son; spirit; state; stephen; sword; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; way; wife; william; words; years; young
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        item: #7 of 13
          id: 40537
      author: James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
       title: The History of Chivalry
        date: None
       words: 115116
      flesch: 63
     summary: Roger, Roy de Sicile et de Naples, fit une ordonnance, que nul ne pût recevoir l'ordre de Chevalerie, s'il n'estoit de race militaire. [étudié] et occupé de dicter et écrire cette histoire, à la requête et contemplation de haut prince et renommé Messire Guy de Châtillon, Comte de Blois, Seigneur d'Avesnes, de Beaumont, de Scoonhort, et de la Gende, mon bon et souverain maître et seigneur; considérai en moi-même, que nulle espérance n'étoit que aucuns faits d'armes se fissent ès parties de Picardie et de Flandre, puisque paix y étoit, et point ne voulois être oiseux; car je savois bien que encore au temps à venir, et quand je serai mort, sera cette haute et noble histoire en grand cours, et y prendront tous nobles et vaillants hommes plaisance et exemple de bien faire;
    keywords: account; acre; age; aid; aix; albert; alexius; antioch; arms; army; arrival; attack; baldwin; battle; bernard; body; boemond; brother; camp; character; chiefs; chivalry; christians; city; conduct; constantinople; count; country; course; cross; crusaders; d'agiles; day; days; death; des; ducange; efforts; emperor; enthusiasm; europe; field; forces; france; french; fulcher; general; godfrey; guibert; hand; holy; host; iii; immense; infidels; jerusalem; king; knights; land; leaders; left; length; lib; louis; man; march; means; men; military; moment; monarch; new; number; object; order; palestine; people; period; peter; philip; place; pope; power; prince; purpose; que; qui; raimond; rest; richard; robert; saladin; saracens; second; siege; soldiers; spirit; state; tancred; thing; time; toulouse; town; troops; turks; tyre; walls; war; way; william; years
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: 41549
      author: Davis, William Stearns
       title: "God Wills It!" A Tale of the First Crusade.
        date: None
       words: 189635
      flesch: 89
     summary: Richard saw Tancred riding back within the lines bareheaded and bloody, his lance broken. Mary saw Iftikhar at the foot of the stairs; his gilded mail twinkling, his naked cimeter in hand, his black-plumed casque thrust back so that the face was bare.
    keywords: allah; answer; antioch; arms; baron; battle; bishop; black; blood; brother; camp; castle; cavalier; christ; christian; city; count; cross; cry; dark; day; days; dear; death; die; duke; emir; eyes; face; fair; far; father; feet; fire; franks; god; godfrey; gone; good; greek; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; herbert; high; holy; horse; host; iftikhar; jerusalem; joy; julien; kerbogha; kurkuas; lady; lance; lay; left; life; lips; lord; lord richard; louis; love; man; mary; men; moment; morgiana; moslem; mother; musa; night; norman; palace; red; richard; richard longsword; ride; rollo; rose; save; sebastian; set; shall; sir; son; soul; spaniard; speak; sun; sweet; tell; thought; time; trenchefer; valmont; voice; walls; way; white; words; zeyneb
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: 4370
      author: Guibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy
       title: The Deeds of God Through the Franks
        date: None
       words: 88230
      flesch: 66
     summary: The same doubt exists today about the fate of other great men. There no poor man might complain that he had to endure hardships inflicted upon him by the power of great men, since those who were in charge would permit themselves no rest in bringing the work to completion.
    keywords: antioch; arms; army; attack; battle; bishop; bodies; bohemund; book; certain; christian; church; city; count; cross; day; days; death; duke; emperor; enemy; faith; food; force; franks; gilles; god; godfrey; good; great; guibert; holy; horses; inhabitants; jerusalem; journey; king; knights; land; leaders; left; lord; man; men; pagans; people; peter; place; power; robert; saint; set; siege; soldiers; strength; suffering; things; time; turks; victory; walls; way; words
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: 47780
      author: Wilmot-Buxton, E. M. (Ethel Mary)
       title: The Story of the Crusades
        date: None
       words: 69822
      flesch: 71
     summary: What calls you here, Mohammed? asked the puzzled Abu, and what religion do you now profess? Said Mohammed: I profess the religion of Allah, of His angels and His prophets, the religion of Abraham. So, says Richard of Devizes, King Richard came to the siege of Acre, and was welcomed by the besiegers with as great joy as if it had been Christ that had come again on earth to restore the kingdom of Israel.
    keywords: alexios; army; church; city; constantinople; count; cross; crusaders; day; days; death; east; emperor; europe; france; french; god; good; hands; holy; host; islam; jerusalem; king; knights; land; little; lord; louis; man; men; mohammed; people; peter; pilgrims; pope; raymond; return; richard; saracens; story; sultan; time; turks; walls; war; way; years
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: 6032
      author: Villehardouin, Geoffroi de
       title: Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople
        date: None
       words: 53920
      flesch: 74
     summary: Shortly after died Gerard of Mancicourt, who was a knight much 77 prized, and Giles of Annoy, and many other good people. And at that place took the cross Odo the Champenois of Champlitte, and William his brother, Richard of Dampierre, Odo his brother, Guy of Pesmes, Edmund his brother, Guy of Conflans, and many other good men of Burgundy, whose names are not recorded.
    keywords: adrianople; barons; brother; city; constantinople; count; day; doge; emperor; emperor baldwin; emperor henry; geoffry; god; good; greeks; henry; host; johannizza; knights; land; lord; marquis; men; people; ships; venice
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: 6350
      author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
       title: Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade
        date: None
       words: 108446
      flesch: 78
     summary: The cure for a broken heart, if there be any, is not in solitude and prayer, but in facing the wounds and stings of the world's life; and the abbot had almost forcibly thrust his young friend out to live like other men of his order, while suggesting a pilgrimage to the Holy Land as a means of satisfying his religious cravings. But it would have been impossible to say what it was in the man's form or face that made him so utterly different and distinct from other men.
    keywords: air; arms; army; arnold; beatrix; blood; cross; dark; day; dead; death; dunstan; eleanor; eyes; face; far; father; gilbert; gilbert warde; god; good; grace; half; hand; head; heart; king; knights; lady; left; life; light; like; lips; love; low; man; men; moment; place; queen; rode; rose; sir; sir gilbert; sword; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; words; world; young
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: 6490
      author: Scott, Walter
       title: The Betrothed
        date: None
       words: 132426
      flesch: 60
     summary: And all for what?-- Forsooth the great De Lacy must have an heir to his noble house, and his fair nephew is not good enough to be his representative, because his mother was of Anglo-Saxon strain, and the real heir must be pure unmixed Norman; and for this, Lady Eveline Berenger, in the first bloom of youth, must be wedded to a man who might be her father, and who, after leaving her unprotected for years, will return in such guise as might beseem her grandfather! Since he is thus scrupulous concerning purity of lineage, said Eveline, perhaps he may call to mind, what so good a herald as he is cannot fail to know--that I am of Saxon strain by my father's mother. These animals traversed without difficulty, and beneath the load of a heavy soldier, the wild mountain paths by which the country was intersected, and in one of which Lady Eveline Berenger concluded she was now engaged, from the manner in which her own palfrey, supported by a man on foot at either rein, seemed now to labour up some precipice, and anon to descend with still greater risk on the other side.
    keywords: answer; apartment; arms; art; berenger; blood; body; castle; constable; countenance; country; dame; damian; danger; daughter; day; death; doloureuse; english; eveline; eyes; fair; father; fear; flammock; fleming; garde; gillian; god; good; gwenwyn; hand; hath; head; hear; heaven; holy; honour; house; king; lacy; lady; lady eveline; length; life; long; look; lord; love; maiden; man; master; means; men; mind; minstrel; mistress; moment; monk; morning; nephew; night; noble; norman; order; person; place; present; prince; purpose; raoul; raymond; rose; sir; speak; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tone; voice; welsh; wilkin; words; young
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