Jonathan Phillips

Holy Warriors

A Modern History of the Crusades

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Produktbeschreibung

Although the notion of fighting for one's faith fell into disrepute in the Enlightenment, Phillips traces the crusading impulse from the bloody conquest of Jerusalem in the First Crusade and the titanic struggle between Richard the Lionheart and Saladin up to the present day - to George W.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 593387
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781845950781
• ISBN-10: 184595078X
• Artikelnr.: 29019815

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Phillips is Professor of Crusading History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades; The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christianity; The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople; The Crusades, 1095-1197; Defenders of the Holy Land, 1119-1187 and the co-editor of three academic essay collections on the Crusades. Phillips is the co-editor of the academic journal Crusades, writes for BBC History and History Today and has made numerous radio and television appearances.

Rezensionen

Holy Warriors is not only very readable. Its skilful and detailed use of source material serves as a showcase of what is being done in this, the most intensively studied area of medieval historiography Robert Irwin Literary Review