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Crusade Against the Grail
The first English translation of the book that reveals the Cathar stronghold at Montségur to be the repository of the Holy Grail • Presents the history of the Papal persecution of the Cathars that lies hidden in the medieval epic Parzival and in the poetry of the troubadours • Provides new insights into the life and death of this gifted and controversial author Crusade Against the Grail is the daring book that popularized the legend of the Cathars and the Holy Grail. The first edition appeared in Germany in 1933 and drew upon Rahn’s account of his explorations of the Pyrenean caves where the heretical Cathar sect sought refuge during the 13th century. Over the years the book has been ...
The Swiss and the Nazis
The award-winning author of Target Switzerland uses “a wide breadth of research to attempt to answer why Switzerland escaped the Nazi onslaught” (Daly History Blog). While surrounded by the Axis powers in World War II, Switzerland remained democratic and, unlike most of Europe, never succumbed to the siren songs and threats of the Nazi goliath. This book tells the story with emphasis on two voices rarely heard. One voice is that of scores of Swiss who lived in those dark years, told through oral history. They mobilized to defend the country, labored on the farms, and helped refugees. The other voice is that of Nazi Intelligence, those who spied on the Swiss and planned subversion and inv...
Dante’s Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion
This book explores the Islamic roots of the Western values of tolerance and religious pluralism, and considers Dante from the perspective of the Arab-Islamic philosophical tradition. It examines the relations between Islamic and Western thought, the historical origins of Western values, and the tradition of tolerance in classical Islamic thought.
People, Nations and Traditions in a Comparative Frame
If the turn of the twenty-first century was characterised by the ‘history wars’ in which bitter internecine battles raged between different historical schools, Jonathan Steinberg was noteworthy for his methodological pluralism. His own historical worked spanned diplomatic history, military history, the social history of war, biography, social history, banking history, political culture and genocide studies. He often employed a comparative historical approach, which teased out deep historical explanations by examining personalities, nations and traditions simultaneously. This book offers a critical appreciation of his contribution to modern historical practice with contributions by former students and colleagues, whose own interests are as diverse as those of Steinberg himself.
Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Grail
Who was the amazing Otto Rahn? How come if Rahn was such an amazing man has hardly anyone outside specialist pre-WW2 history circles ever heard of him? But is he really such an unknown? The story lines of Raiders of the Lost Ark to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade mirror Rahn’s incredible adventures in the South of France in the early 1930s.
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Quand le laurier reverdira
Le 21 juillet 1209, aux cris de 'Tuez-les tous, Dieu reconnaitra les siens !", Béziers fut la première victime de la croisade contre les Albigeois. Seul un enfant nouveau-né survécut par miracle au massacre. Sauvé par un cathare, il devait ensuite fonder une famille, appelée La Dama en souvenir de l'Eglise d'amour dont elle était le symbole. Quand le laurier reverdira est la saga prodigieuse de cette famille issue du catharisme du XIIIe siècle et dont Paul Alexis Ladame est l'ultime descendant. Pendant sept cents ans, les générations successives se sont efforcées de demeurer fidèles a leurs racines et à leur idéal. A chaque siècle, les La Dama - plus tard devenus Ladame - ont ...
