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In Naam Van God: Een Nieuwe Geschiedenis Van De Kruistochten (2009)

by Jonathan Phillips(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

9078230053 (ISBN13: 9789078230052)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Nieuw Amsterdam

review 1: I'm rounding up from 3 1/2 stars. I found the first 3/4 of the book fascinating. A great combination of events and stories kept me interested. He does a good job of explaining the significance of the crusades and their context of what was going on in Europe and elsewhere in Asia. I would probably have given in a solid 4 stars, but I thought the last two chapters were for the most part dribble. More than anything this made me want to go to London and take one of his courses on The Crusades.
review 2: Excellent, very readable birds-eye view of the Crusades. Phillips falls down a bit when he tries to pull it all together and talk about the use of the word "crusade" in times since the actual Crusades...he's trying for a kinda lofty conclusion, and he doesn't ... morequite make it. But the main point is to give a general sense of what happened, and there he succeeds admirably.I'm not trying to become a big expert on the Crusades or anything; I just want the broad strokes. I think of it like this: I'd like to know enough about the Crusades to nail a a hypothetical Crusades category on Jeopardy. I've achieved that: what are Jerusalem, the Knights Templar, Richard the Lionheart, Constantinople, and Saladin. Gimme my money. less

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