Fantastic Must Read primary source texts from all periods.

Robert of Canterbury · Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:16 am

Alleluia!

http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/a ... ources.htm

More primary source material in very good translation, than I will be able to read in a year.

My Eternal gratitude to Magmaforge for bringing up this link in another thread.

Gentlemen, Ladies, to your reading!

GavinKyncade · Post by **GavinKyncade** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:02 am

cool link thanks!!!

SirCathal · Post by **SirCathal** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:06 am

Wow ... a letter from Hugh de Payns (one of the founding members of the order) to the Knights Templar ... that rocks.

AEiric Orvender · Post by **AEiric Orvender** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:58 am

Well not bad but not from every time period :wink:

The've got some nice stuff from the 4th and 6th Centuries, but nothing on the 1st-3rd or the 5th... ahh well

Russ Mitchell · Post by **Russ Mitchell** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:28 am

I'm doing a little translation myself along with the wife that might go up there, as well. But it's secondary, rather than primary.

Robert of Canterbury · Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:38 am

Hi Russ,

I'm unclear. Is the material you are working on Secondary, ro do you mean that the title of the thread should be Fanatastic etc Secondary sources etc.?

Cheers

Robert

Russ Mitchell · Post by **Russ Mitchell** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:12 am

Um...the former. Though the de re site does have both.

Ogedei · Post by **Ogedei** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:32 am

In reply Qara Sonqor wrote, "How dare the Mongols attack the House of Abbas, for that family has seen as much good fortune as Genghis Khan's, and their foundations are too firm to quake with every passing breeze. They have been ruling for more than five hundred years, and no creature who has attacked them has been spared by fate. It is far from perspicacious of you to invite me to join the young sapling of Mongol fortune. If he were in amity and friendship, when Hulagu Khan finished conquering the Heretics' lands and fortresses, he should not have gone past Ray but should have returned to Khurasan and Turkistan. The caliph's feelings have been hurt by his onslaught. This being so, if Hulagu Khan regrets what he has done and turns back to Hamadan with his troops, we will have the Dawatdar intercede and plead with the caliph on his behalf. Perhaps he may overlook the offense and accept a truce so that the gates of fighting and contention may be closed."

Wrong Answer.

Baron Alejandro · Post by **Baron Alejandro** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:42 am

I love that bookwork is so rapidly becoming a part of the average fighter's training!

audax · Post by **audax** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:56 pm

Ã†iric Ã˜rvender wrote:Well not bad but not from every time period
The've got some nice stuff from the 4th and 6th Centuries, but nothing on the 1st-3rd or the 5th... ahh well

Well, you Celts should have been more with the book writing than with the book burning. Course, it would have helped if you'd developed writing in the first place, rather than doing all that wandering about.

Robert of Canterbury · Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:01 pm

Ã†iric Ã˜rvender wrote:Well not bad but not from every time period
The've got some nice stuff from the 4th and 6th Centuries, but nothing on the 1st-3rd or the 5th... ahh well

There is no pleasing some people.

Engage Brain, use internet-fu, and Follow the links... :!:

http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/a ... arfare.htm