Holy warriors
Subtitle: a modern history of the crusades
By: Jonathan Phillips.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781400065806; 9781588369758
Subjects: Crusades; Crusades -- Influence; Religion and civilization; Middle East -- History; Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Deus vult!": the First Crusade and the capture of Jerusalem, 1095-1099; title: "May god's curse be upon them!": relations between Muslims and Franks in the Levant, 1099-1187; title: "A woman of unusual wisdom and discretion": queen melisende of jerusalem; title: The "blessed generation": St. Bernard of Clairvaux and the Second Crusade, 1145-1149; title: Saladin, the leper king and the fall of Jerusalem in 1187; title: "Nowhere in the world would ever two such princes be found": Richard the Lionheart, Saladin and the Third Crusade; title: "An example of affliction and the works of hell": the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople, 1204; title: From "little foxes in the vines" and the Children's Crusade to the greatest church council of the age; title: "Stupor mundi": the wonder of the world: Frederick II, the Fifth Crusade and the recovery of Jerusalem; title: "To kill the serpent, first you must crush the head": the crusade of Louis IX and the rise of the sultan baibars; title: From the trial of the Templars to Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus and the conquest of the new world; title: New crusaders? From Sir Walter Scott to Osama Bin Laden and George W. Bush.