Holy Warriors A Modern History of the Crusades

Name: Holy Warriors A Modern History of the Crusades
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ISBN: 9781400065806

ISBN-10: 1400065801

ISBN-13: 9781400065806

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jonathan Phillips

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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. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes-from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of todayrs"s wars. Starting with Pope Urban IIrs"s emotive, groundbreaking speech in November 1095, in which he called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam by…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Publication date: 3/9/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Illustrations and Maps


Introduction



"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


Conclusion: In the Shadow of the Crusades


Acknowledgments


Notes


Primary Bibliography


Secondary Bibliography


Index