As a professor with an academic specialization in the crusades, I’d like to think that I would be well informed about the existence of a new documentary series on those medieval campaigns (especially when the […]
Michael Haag, The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States (Harper: New York, 2013) 448 pp, paperback, $16.99 Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c. 1070-1309 (Palgrave Macmillan: […]
Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem by Carol Delaney Free Press: New York, 2012 319 pp, paperback, $16.00 Another Columbus Day is upon us and while the protests are not as sizeable or virulent as […]
In G.K. Chesterton’s The Red Moon of Meru, Father Brown successfully foils the theft of a priceless ruby at an English manor. As the story ends, the cleric reminds his police colleague that while one […]
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