Saladin - Anne-Marie Edde

Saladin
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Autor: Anne-Marie Edde

 Wydawnictwo: Chicago University Press
ISBN: 9780674283978
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Oprawa: miękka
Stron: 704
Data wydania: 2014-05-01
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Working simultaneously on two levels, 'Saladin' represents a different kind of biography - a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that made the man. Originally published in France in 2008, this splendid [book] will now have a wider international readership thanks to this fluent translation by Jane Marie Todd...[Saladin is] so filled with lively anecdote and a thoughtful, balanced analysis of the points at issue, as to be eminently readable for a wide audience...The book is a powerful reminder...of the full range of Saladin's concerns across the Middle East. At times we are so drawn towards his epic struggle with the Christians that we lose sight of the Sultan's need to engage in near-constant negotiation, bluff, warfare and propaganda with his co-religionists, processes that absorbed the majority of his time and energy. These matters are superbly well drawn out, but Edde offers much more. There exists a wealth of evidence in the form of poetry, in medical, financial and military treatises, in religious and judicial material, and in architectural studies, that she has utilized to illuminate the more day-to-day aspects of his rule and the environment in which he operated...Anne-Marie Edde has drawn a charismatic figure in a richly colored environment, to produce a refreshing, enjoyable and valuable book.--Jonathan Phillips"Times Literary Supplement" (07/06/2012)

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Anne-Marie Edde