Böcker av Jonathan Phillips

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.

Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East.

This wide-ranging collection offers a series of originalinterpretations of partially explored evidence for all three theatres of warduring the Second Crusade (1145-49). It also considers the planning, executionand consequences of the crusade for western Europe, the Crusader States of theHoly Land and the Muslim Near East. -- .

"First published 2002 by Pearson Education."

The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. This book provides an understanding of the Crusades and their importance in medieval European history.

In this remarkable new assessment of the Fourth Crusade, Jonathan Phillips follows the fortunes of the leading players and explores the conflicting motives that drove the expedition to commit the most infamous massacre of the crusading movement.