The Divine Right of Church Government Wherein it is proved that the Presbyterian government, by preaching and ruling elders, in sessional, Presbyterial and synodical assemblies, may lay the only lawful claim to a divine right, according to the Holy Scriptures

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Headlines in history the 1100s

Table of Contents: “…Bernard and the rise of Cistercian monasticism -- Bernard's sermon on humility -- Frederick I Barbarossa: power over the papacy -- Becket controversy -- Henry II: conflict with the church -- Crusades: Holy Crusades -- Crusading knights: Knights Templar and Hospitaler -- Islamic reaction to the Crusades -- Crusaders through the eyes of a Muslim -- Chivalry and courtly love: Feudalism and knightly ethics -- World of knights: fact and fiction -- Chretien de Troyes and courtly love -- Lancelot and Guinevere -- Influence of the troubadours -- Songs of a troubadour -- Romantic legend: Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Twelfth-century renaissance -- Overview: twelfth-century renaissance -- Rise of universities -- Conflicting philosophies: humanism and scholasticism -- Abelard the intellectual -- Letters of Abelard and Heloise -- John of Salisbury and Christian humanism -- In defense of eloquence -- Human intellect is limited -- Vertical cathedrals: rise of gothic architecture -- Asia: Rise of China as a sea power -- Confucianism in twelfth-century China -- Chinese rituals in the twelfth century -- Samurai code of honor -- Example of Japanese storytelling -- Development of the Kamakura government -- Rise of Genghis Khan -- Temujin slays his brother -- Americas: Talking pottery: the Chimu Indians of Peru -- Demise of the Toltecs -- Rise and fall of the Anasazi Indians.…”

Jerusalem, 1000-1400 every people under heaven

Table of Contents: “…Art and Medieval Jerusalem -- Trade and tourism in Medieval Jerusalem -- Domestic goods from the suq to the home: imagining Jerusalem's interiors -- Jewish-Muslim encounters in the Holy Land -- Terra miracula: blessed souvenirs from the Holy Land -- Catalogue numbers 1-26 -- Pluralism in the Holy City -- Saint Sabas and the monks of the Holy Land -- The Karaites -- Maimonides and Jerusalem -- The merits of Jerusalem (Fada'il al-Quds) -- Catalogue numbers 27-57 -- Experiencing sacred art in Jerusalem -- The closed gate -- Sharing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the Crusader period -- The Dome of the Rock -- The minbar of Nur al-Din -- The cradle of Jesus and the Oratory of Mary on Jerusalem's Haram al-Sharif -- Catalogue numbers 58-101 -- Holy war and the power of art -- Jerusalem: the crucible of holy war -- Catalogue numbers 102-120 -- Patronage in Jerusalem -- Jacques de Vitry -- The Armenian presence in Jerusalem -- Franciscans in Jerusalem: the early history -- Muslim women patrons in Jerusalem -- Catalogue numbers 121-136 -- Seeking the eternal Jerusalem -- Catalogue numbers 137-149…”

A history of Palestine, 634-1099 by Gil, Moshe 1921-