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Hip, irreverent & illuminating look at the knights, faith & Holy Wars that changed history. Restaged battles & cutting-edge special effects bring the 13th century to life.
Reviews (2)
Booklist Review
Ages 14^-adult. Monty Python veteran Terry Jones is the self-effacing host of this lavish chronicle of the eleventh-century Crusades--viewed as futile, ill-advised wars carried out under the guise of religious devotion. From Pilgrims in Arms, introducing Hugh of France and other barbaric leaders, through Jerusalem, highlighting the savage conquest of that city, to Jihad, covering the Muslims' recapture of Jerusalem, the series concludes, in Destruction, with coverage of the final Crusades and Richard the Lionheart. Often, this ambitious series evokes a lighthearted tone--Jones remarking that "knights were still thugs who enjoyed beating the crap out of each other." Nevertheless, the production offers substantive coverage, with theologians, professors, and others offering credible commentary. Sometimes rambling but always invigorating, the series is marked by location footage, clever reenactments, computer animation, and other eye-catching production techniques. --Sue-Ellen Beauregard
Library Journal Review
Jones, the author of collections of children's fairy tales and a producer of films in the Monty Python series, and Ereira, a BBC executive, produced this book to accompany a forthcoming TV series on crusades. Splendidly illustrated, cleverly and wittily written, the book is likely to do a great deal of damage. It is rife with errors of fact, anachronisms, and vulgarisms. Worse, it is pervaded with a vicious, if politically correct, anti-Catholic bigotry, suggesting that the authors know very little medieval history (although a bibliography does list some of the standard reference works on the crusades). With no reference to Muslim Spain, generally acknowledged as the source of the crusading idea; with no concept of the social or cultural implications (what of women, mathematics, medicine, diet, etc.?); without even a definition of the term crusade, the authors explain the various movements solely as sporadic events linked by religious fanaticism. Westerners today pay a heavy price for their ignorance of the Middle East and their imperialistic exploitation of that region. The general public to whom the book is directed deserves better than they get here.-Bennett D. Hill, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.