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Holy warriors : a modern history of the Crusades / Jonathan Phillips.

Phillips, Jonathan (Jonathan P.) (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781400065806 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 1400065801 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9781588369758 (ebook)
ISBN: 1588369757 (ebook)
Physical Description: xxv, 434 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : Random House, c2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"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.