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Jonathan Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Roval Holloway, University of London.

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Great Commanders of the Medieval World, 454–1582 (2011) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2005 (2005) — Author "Christian vs. Christian in the Fourth Crusade' — 7 eksemplarer

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This is a really solid biography of Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, best known in the Anglophone world as Saladin: one of the most well-known names from the Middle Ages. Yet, as Jonathan Phillips points out in The Life and Legend, particularly in the West Saladin is a figure better known because of romantic, orientalising tales told about him from the medieval period on rather than on account of his actual career. In the first part of this book, Phillips' remedies that with an impressively well-contextualised look at Saladin's life within the 12th-century Near East. The latter half looks at the afterlife of Saladin, how he's been memoralised and mythologised in both Western and Muslim culture over the centuries since his death. I found this section fascinating, but wished Phillips had had the scope to go more in-depth here.

Overall, accessible and engagingly written, and should appeal to a broad range of readers.
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siriaeve | 2 andre anmeldelser | Oct 6, 2023 |
 
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Albertos | 2 andre anmeldelser | Feb 14, 2022 |
I've read a few of these 'the wo/man and her/his legacy' type biographies, and none of them work all that well: if the biography is good, the 'here's how people have imagined her' is usually quite weak, and vice versa. Phillips' biography is good, and the image stuff is fine, at best. There's a lot of crusadery battles here, so if you like that, here it is. If you don't, now you know.
 
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stillatim | 2 andre anmeldelser | Oct 23, 2020 |
Pretty fascinating account of the Crusades. I hadn't read anything about the Crusades since I took Western Civ in high school, so this was mostly fresh information for me and I found it very interesting. The final chapter is eminently skippable, however--Phillips tries to tie contemporary figures such as Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden to the medieval Crusades, and it doesn't really work. (And the chapter also just feels like it is from an entirely different book.) Still well worth reading.
 
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