Thomas Lecaque Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Thomas Lecaque is a historian. A historian who specializes in the nexus of apocalyptic religion and political violence. Angry swearbear. France-US. Views own. He/him.

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Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen
Hey #vastearlyamerica folks, potentially random question. Are Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen Jr.'s papers in Albany? I've read some of his sermons from the start of the Seven Year's War and would love to see what else is out there on him...
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The First Crusade: The Call from the East
Peter Frankopan
@sneerbear Paul Cobb's The Race for Paradise, Jay Rubenstein's Armies of Heaven, Peter Frankopan's The Call from the East would be good starting points for three different approaches!
Paperback, 2016
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Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text
Dante
Dreher talks about Dante's Paradiso. Reading Dreher is a taste of Dante's Inferno.
Paperback, 2021
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Children of God
Mary Doria Russell
I read Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow and now I'm reading her Children of God and good lord these are hard books. Rich and interesting and thought provoking and soul searching and hard.
Paperback, 1999
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlà Clark
I've read all but two of the Hugo nominees for best novel already, so now to start @pdjeliclark 's A Master of Djinn!
Paperback, 2022
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The Sunne in Splendour
Sharon Kay Penman
@shakespeareprof I love that book, tbh. I think good historical fiction, especially that's clear it's fiction, is vital for making people interested. Sharon Kay Penman's The Sunne in Splendour is my favorite of that type, still love it.
Paperback, 2008
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
Raymond Ibrahim
"After reading historian Raymond Ibrahim’s new book, Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam, I believe today’s situation more closely mirrors that of 15th-century Romania." Go fuck yourself.
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Iowa's Archaeological Past
Lynn M. Alex
@XolXtatu I've also taught with James L. Theler and Robert F. Boszhardt, Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley; Lynn M. Alex, Iowa’s Archaeological Past; Timothy Pauketat & Susan Alt, Medieval Mississippians: The Cahokian World; Allison Hedge Coke, Blood Run;
Paperback, 2000
$31.00$15.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Land of Water, City of the Dead: Religion and Cahokia's Emergence
Sarah E. Baires
@praxishabitus Oooo ok @kelly_j_baker 's Gospel According to the Klan is my favorite book of American history and I suggest it to everyone in every context because it matters deeply. Sarah E. Baires' Land of Water, City of the Dead, on Cahokia, is brilliant and discusses religion & archaeology
Paperback, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Ronnie Ellenblum
Ok! Let's add some more. Ronnie Ellenblum's Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem is an excellent archaeological survey of how crusader villages actually functioned. Christopher MacEvitt's The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance
Paperback, 2003
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