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Books on: knights warfare

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The Knights Hospitaller

Book by Helen Nicholson; Boydell Press, 2001

Subjects:

Knights Of Malta--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...actively involved in physical warfare against Muslims in the East...Sepulchre wished to be involved in warfare in Aragon at this period. Nevertheless...being made knights. In general, knights were characterised as fighting...highly skilled in the art of warfare through frequent training...
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The Household Knights of King John

Book by S. D. Church; Cambridge University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Great Britain--History, Military--1066-1485, Great Britain--History--John, 1199-1216, Knights And Knighthood--Great Britain--History--To 1500, Royal Households--Great Britain--History--To 1500

Collections: History, Entire Library

If the medieval king was the helmsman of the ship of state, the royal household was the ship's engine. It comprised men from most ranks of society, from the great magnates of the realm to simple servants who looked after the day-to-day needs of the king and his court. This is the first full-length ...
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If the medieval king was the helmsman of the ship of state, the royal household was the ship's engine. It comprised men from most ranks of society, from the great magnates of the realm to simple servants who looked after the day-to-day needs of the king and his court. This is the first full-length study of the most important group of the court household, the king's knights: socially élite, militarily preeminent, and indispensable for the workings of English medieval government.
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Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor

Book by Craig Phelan; Greenwood, 2000

Subjects:

Knights Of Labor--History, Labor Movement--United States--History, Labor Unions--United States--History, Powderly, Terence Vincent--1849-1924, Radicalism--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...WORKMAN Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor Craig Phelan Contributions...Master Workman : Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor / Craig Phelan. p. cm.-(Contributions...Powderly, Terence Vincent, 1849-1924. 2. Knights of Labor- History. 3. Labor unions-United...
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Treitschke's Origins of Prussianism (The Teutonic Knights)

Book by Eden Cedar Paul; George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1942

Subjects:

Teutonic Knights--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...days of irregular warfare. The instant any...of the Teutonic Knights, became on a large...burst forth, and warfare of inhuman cruelty...pride of Christians, Knights, and Germans had...unchanging method of warfare among the barbarians...twain. The Teutonic Knights were thus surrounded...
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Beyond Labor's Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor

Book by Robert E. Weir; Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Knights Of Labor (Canada)--History, Knights Of Labor--History, Labor Movement--North America--History--19th Century, Popular Culture--North America--History--19th Century, Social Conflict--North America--History--19th Century, Working Class Writings, American--History And Criticism, Working Class Writings, Canadian--History And Criticism, Working Class--North America--Songs And Music--History And Criticism, Working Class--Religious Life--North America--History--19th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor was founded in 1869 as a secret fraternal order committed to the goal of uniting American Labor. At its height in 1886, the Knights claimed the allegiance of perhaps a million workers.

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Journal Articles on: knights warfare

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The Teutonic Knights and Baltic Chivalry

Journal article by William Urban; The Historian, Vol. 57, 1995

Subjects:

Germany--History, Knights and knighthood--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Teutonic knights and Baltic chivalry...figure of medieval warfare, evolving from...civilized behavior, knights came to dominate not only warfare, but high culture...The Teutonic Knights were utterly...politics and warfare. Their Realpolitik...
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"Let Us Live for Those Who Love Us": Faith, Family, and the Contours of Manhood among the Knights of Columbus in Late Nineteenth-Century Connecticut

Journal article by Amy Koehlinger; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2004

Subjects:

Fraternal organizations--History, Fraternal organizations--Research, Knights of Columbus--History, Knights of Columbus--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and consummation) of his marriage, and the obligations of warfare. The caption reads "The Call of Duty." In the second image...battle armor before an elderly, seated bishop who solemnly knights him with a jeweled sword. A child with bowed head holds the...
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Guerrilla Warfare, Democracy, and the Fate of the Confederacy

Journal article by Daniel E. Sutherland; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 68, 2002

Subjects:

Confederate States of America--Military policy, Guerrilla warfare--History, United States history, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865

Collections: History, Entire Library

...book-learning, the West Pointers theoretical concerns about guerrilla warfare had been validated by their experiences fighting Indians and...soldiers came to associate guerrilla combat not with the romantic knights of the American Revolution but with uncivilized peoples. The...
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Guerrilla Warfare: When Taking Care of Your Troops Leads to War Crimes

Journal article by David Kellogg; Journal of Power and Ethics, Vol. 1, 2000

Subjects:

Atrocities--Causes of, Ethics--Research, Guerrilla warfare--Moral and ethical aspects, Military policy--Moral and ethical aspects, War--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...approach to the problem of war crimes presented by insurgency warfare, I will leave consideration of ultimate causes like inherent...to "take no prisoners," as Henry Vs shocked and disbelieving knights did on what is commonly represented to English school children...
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Knights of Venus

Journal article by W.M. Ormrod; Medium Aevum, Vol. 73, 2004

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...more of them were knights of Venus rather...the prosecution of warfare among those who...only of skill in warfare, but of the skills...kings household knights for their inappropriate...qualities required for warfare. (44) In this view...courtliness of the knights of the chamber that...

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Magazine Articles on: knights warfare

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The New Era of Warfare

Magazine article by Keith Suter; Contemporary Review, Vol. 265, September 1994

Subjects:

Guerrilla warfare--Analysis, Mass media criticism--Analysis, Warfare, Conventional--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...positions (especially castles). There were few full-time soldiers. Knights, for example, ran feudal estates as their main source of income and recruited their own workers as troops when required. Warfare changed around the 17th century. There is no one single explanation...
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Knights of Passion

Magazine article by Rupert Isaacson; Geographical, Vol. 72, January 2000

Subjects:

Geography, Political--Research, Society for Creative Anachronism--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

Knights of passion. by Rupert Isaacson...who dress up to recreate medieval warfare a bunch of crackpots or is there...other deadly paraphanalia of medieval warfare, refought the York and Lancaster...territory is disputed -- until next year. Warfare under these rules is, in fact, the...
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The Myths of Medieval Warfare

Magazine article by Sean Mcglynn; History Today, Vol. 44, January 1994

Subjects:

Middle Ages--Military aspects, Military history--13th century, War--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...appeal and drama of knights and battles. Collectively...myths of medieval warfare emerged from these...most cautious in warfare. Discipline was...shock charge, the knights greatest tactical...given to medieval warfare for proficient recruitment...archery and dismounted knights, competent leadership...
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Fighting Fair and Foul: 'Asymmetrical Warfare' in the Land of Saddam

Magazine article by Victor Davis Hanson; National Review, Vol. 55, April 21, 2003

Subjects:

Hussein, Saddam--Military policy, Iraq War, 2003--Analysis, Iraq--Military policy, Iraq--Strategic aspects, Military policy--Analysis, United States foreign relations--Analysis, United States--International relations, United States--Military policy

Collections: Entire Library

...American GIs in enemy prison camps. In the Western view of warfare, morality hinges not on the number killed but on the manner...ate Spanish captives were met with brutal charges of mailed knights and harquebusiers. Zulus who tortured and executed the British...
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Fran Josef's Forgotten U-Boat Captains

Magazine article by John Harbron; History Today, Vol. 46, June 1996

Subjects:

Austria--History, Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary--Influence, Navies--Officers, Submarine warfare--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Trapp, Ritter von--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...German programme of unfestricted submarine warfare to sink any ship without warning after...the only three U-boat officers decorated Knights of the Military Order of Maria Teresa...equivalent to the more familiar German Knights Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords awarded...

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Newspaper Articles on: knights warfare

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Knights of Old Are Back with Joust a Little Fun from the Middle Ages

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 7, 2007

Subjects:

Middle Ages

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...pursuit depicted in films like A Knights Tale and Ivanhoe. It will take...Ages was often a product of warfare and it became very dangerous...death were real hazards. But knights and those of noble birth found...noble culture, especially in warfare and in military technology...
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The Winter Knights Just Flew by; Chris Upton Discovers That the Arthurian Legend May Have Been Put Together by a Warwickshire Chap

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 7, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...on in the lawless years of the mid-15th Century, when gang warfare was rife and civil protection minimal. If this indeed is...it certainly shows is that the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is more about what life could be than what...
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Battle of Blood Rock

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 7, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...knight. This was psychological warfare at its most brutal, a message...the mettle of his enemythe Knights of St John. Nor on the determination...just a few hundred hardbitten knights andsome local peasant soldiers...lookeddoomed. That the Hospitaller Knights of St John existed at all was...
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Medieval Job Opportunities Centennial Sixth Graders Show What Day-to-Day Life Was like for the Average Jester

Newspaper article by Arlene Miles; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 10, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...all sounds like a scene from "Camelot," right? Well, these knights brandished swords and armor made of cardboard and tinfoil...people wore, ate and drank, to more detailed issues such as warfare, weaponry and torture. The annual fair is part of a combined...
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The Island of Death; Answers to Correspondents

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 9, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...advance of the heavier cavalry (knights, later hussars and pancerni...but with the advent of trench warfare and heavy artillery they became...the Crusades, principally the Knights Templar, who modelled them...first Earl of Northampton. The Knights Hospitaller, who looked after...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: knights warfare

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Teutonic Knights

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...In 1263 the pope allowed the knights to monopolize the grain trade...Brandenburg brought on intermittent warfare with Poland, which claimed...at Tannenberg ; successive warfare with Poles ensued and by the second Treaty of Torun (1466) the knights were forced to cede West Prussia...
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Knight

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...equipment. In Roman society, the knights (Latin equites ) ranked below...nobility. The incessant private warfare that characterized medieval...military age were necessarily knights, knighthood had to be earned...banner was a knight banneret. Knights were ordinarily accompanied...
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Army

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the introduction of gunpowder . Armed knights became easy victims of hand-carried firearms...changed technologically as well. Trench warfare resulted from improvements in small arms...units. The development of mechanized warfare in the 20th cent. made armies powerful...
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Chivalry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...monastic orders of knighthood, the Knights Templars and the Knights Hospitalers , produced soldiers sworn to uphold the Christian...promiscuity and adultery and pious militance into barbarous warfare. Moreover, the chivalric duties were not owed to those outside...
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Agincourt

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...mainly to the superiority of the masses of English longbow men over the heavily armored French knights, demonstrated the obsolescence of the methods of warfare of the age of chivalry. The victory enabled the English to conquer much of France. The battle...

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