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Fantastic Must Read primary source texts from all periods.
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:16 am
by Robert of Canterbury
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!
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:02 am
by GavinKyncade
cool link thanks!!!
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:06 am
by SirCathal
Wow ... a letter from Hugh de Payns (one of the founding members of the order) to the Knights Templar ... that rocks.
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:58 am
by AEiric Orvender
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
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:28 am
by Russ Mitchell
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:38 am
by Robert of Canterbury
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
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:12 am
by Russ Mitchell
Um...the former. Though the de re site does have both.
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:32 am
by Ogedei
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:42 am
by Baron Alejandro
I love that bookwork is so rapidly becoming a part of the average fighter's training!
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:56 pm
by audax
Æiric Ørvender 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.
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:01 pm
by Robert of Canterbury
Æiric Ørvender 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