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Phillips, Jonathan (Jonathan P.)
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Crusades.
Crusades -- Influence.
Religion and civilization.
Middle East -- History.
Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500.
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Holy warriors : a mo...
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Holy warriors : a modern history of the Crusades / Jonathan Phillips.
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Phillips, Jonathan (Jonathan P.)
New York : Random House, c2009.
Subjects
Crusades.
Crusades -- Influence.
Religion and civilization.
Middle East -- History.
Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500.
ISBN:
9781400065806 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
1400065801 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9781588369758 (ebook)
1588369757 (ebook)
Description:
xxv, 434 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Contents:
"Deus vult!": the First Crusade and the capture of Jerusalem, 1095-99 -- "May God's curse be upon them!": relations between Muslims and Franks in the Levant, 1099-1187 -- "A woman of unusual wisdom and discretion": Queen Melisende of Jerusalem -- The "blessed generation": Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Second Crusade, 1145-49 -- Saladin, the Leper King, and the fall of Jerusalem in 1187 -- "Nowhere in the world would ever two such princes be found": Richard the Lionheart, Saladin and the Third Crusade -- "An example of affliction and the works of hell": the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople, 1204 -- From "little foxes in the vines" and the Children's Crusade to the greatest church council of the age -- "Stupor mundi": the wonder of the world: Frederick II, the Fifth Crusade and the recovery of Jerusalem -- "To kill the serpent, first you must crush the head": the crusade of Louis IX and the rise of the Sultan Baibars -- From the trial of the Templars to Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus, and the conquest of the new world -- New crusaders?: from Sir Walter Scott to Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush.
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From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players--knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims.
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Hawaii State Library
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909.07 Ph
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