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Atlas of the Crusades

Jonathan Riley-Smith, editor (Facts on File, 1991)

The only chronicle of Christendom’s Holy Wars that maps and illustrates their entire 700-year history. Spanning the years 1095 to 1798, this atlas integrates text, illustrations and more than 150 maps to trace the rise, development and decline of the Crusades.

The Bestiary of Christ

Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, transl. & abridged by D. M. Dooling (Parabola Books, 1991)

First English edition of the work of a little-known French Catholic archaeologist/historian on animal symbolism in Christian and other religious traditions. A compendium of religious symbols gleaned from sources as diverse as ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, early and medieval Christianity, the Kabbalah and spiritual schools of the Near and Far East. Illustrated with over 400 woodcuts created by the author.

Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry