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A history of the Third Crusade. 2. The life and legacy of the Sultan Saladin. 3. The Memory of the Crusades in western Europe and the Near East from the C18th to the present day. He is also the General Editor of the forthcoming 2 volume Cambridge History of the Crusades.
Education: University of London, B.A., Ph.D. ADDRESSES: Offıce— Department of History, Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England. E-mail— j.p.phillips@rhul. ac.uk. CAREER: Author and educator. Royal Holloway College, London, Egham, Surrey, England, senior lecturer in medieval history.
Dr. Jonathan Phillips is Professor of Crusading History in the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His scholarly contributions to the crusades include the books Defenders of the Holy Land: Relations Between the Latin East and West, 1119-1187, The Crusades, 1095-1197, and most recently, The Fourth Crusade and the ...
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About the Author. Jonathan Phillips is Professor of Crusading History at Royal Holloway, University of London. The author of three previous books, he was the main contributor to the History Channel’s 2005 series The Crusades: The Crescent and the Cross.
Mar 1, 2021 · Jonathan Phillips approaches Saladin’s complex legacy head on in The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin. Indeed, he acknowledges the unique challenge of attempting to chronicle the life of this larger-than-life man. Saladin continues to be held up as a symbol of Islamic freedom and Syrian and Kurdish nationalism, while the West holds to ...
