Gordon D Rowe

Showdown at Pecos

In the twentienth century, the old West became a cultural icon that reminded everyone that there would always be another tomorrow and another chance to accomplish their dreams. Stories of gunfighters,bandits,cowboys and Indians have been told so often they have stopped being just stories and become ...

William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

William, archbishop of Tyre from 1175 to c.1184, was a churchman, royal servant and scholar who lived in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Born in Jerusalem around 1130, he studied in western Europe for almost twenty years until 1165, when he returned to the East to begin his career in public life. He...

A tall cedar in our Lebanon: Hugh Gilmore and Primitive Methodism (Gordon Rowe memorial lecture)