Holy warriors : a modern history of the crusades
| 1. Verfasser: |
Phillips, Jonathan (Jonathan P.)
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London :
Bodley Head,
2009.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xxiv, 424 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780224079372 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- "Deus vult!": the First Crusade and the capture of Jerusalem, 1095-1099
- "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": St. Bernard of Clairvaux and the Second Crusade, 1145-1149
- 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.
