The siege of Acre (also called the fall of Acre) took place in 1291 and resulted in the Crusaders' losing control of Acre to the Mamluks. It is considered one of the most important battles of the period.

Year 1291 (MCCXCI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. August 1 – Federal Charter of 1291: The "three forest cantons" (Waldstätte) of Switzerland (Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden) form a defensive alliance to protect themselves from the House of Habsburg; this is a starting point for growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy.

1999年9月16日 · A concise history of the crusades - whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of the 'holy places' of the middle east - from the first calls to arms in the later twelfth century to the...

Paul Ch'en's exploration of the legal system of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and its first substantial legal code (the Chih-yuan hsin-ko, or Chih-yiian New Code) provides a key to our understanding of the impact of the Mongols on traditional Chinese law and society. Originally published in 1979.

1291阿卡圍城戰：十字軍保衛聖地的最後一戰 – Ebook written by 羅傑．克勞利(Roger Crowley). Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or...

Even for the eight, read five different books, and you’ll see five different dates for most of the individual crusades. From the papal standpoint, what defined a Crusade was the promise of remission of sins, or gaining an indulgence. Another thing that makes the rusades hard to pin down is that they weren’t a monolithic clash be-

"...the first book in English to consider the history of medieval Barcelona and the emergence of its patriciate....The book is also an important work of comparative history, placing Barcelona's evolution against the dominant model of northern Italian towns.

This book offers a detailed examination of warfare in the Latin East from the end of the Third Crusade, to the demise of the Latin Kingdom in 1291. It considers both the crusades and the long...