Jonathan L Phillips

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

When Jonathan Talat Phillips experiences a devastating loss as a countercultural media activist, he unwittingly starts on a mystical journey marked by underground ayahuasca ceremonies, kundalini awakenings, prankster spirit guides, extraterrestrial encounters at the Burning Man festival, and miracul...

The Crusades, 1095-1204 (Seminar Studies)

This new and considerably expanded edition of The Crusades, 1095-1204couples vivid narrative with a clear and accessible analysis of the key ideas that prompted the conquest and settlement of the Holy Land between the First and the Fourth Crusade. This edition now covers the Fourth Crusade and the ...

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

In 1202, zealous western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by the shrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople, wreaking devastation so terrible and inflicting sca...

Texas Riparian Areas (River Books, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texa)

Riparian areas—transitional zones between the aquatic environments of streams, rivers, and lakes and the terrestrial environments on and alongside their banks—are special places. They provide almost two hundred thousand miles of connections through which the waters of Texas flow. Keeping the water f...

The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom

The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to the shock and dismay of a society raised on the triumpha...

Holy Warriors

From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decli...

The Fourth Crusade And The Sack Of Constantinople

Defenders of the Holy Land: Relations Between the Latin East and the West, 1119-1187

The Fourth Crusade And The Sack Of Constantinople

The Conquest of Lisbon

The Conquest of Lisbon

The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom

The Experience of Crusading: Defining the Crusader Kingdom

The Experience of Crusading: Western Approaches