作者简介 尼古拉斯·莫顿(Nicholas Morton ) 英国诺丁汉特伦特大学艺术与人文学院副教授，其研究重点为 10~14 世纪十字军运动和中世纪近东的历史，并就这些主题发表了大量文章。他最新出版的著作是 7eMongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the他还是劳特里Medieval Near East (Basic Books).奇出版社三套世界史相关丛书的主编之一。 译者简介 谭琦 哈尔滨理工大学语言文学硕士，译有《十字军:一部争夺圣地的史诗》《诅咒之塔》《拜占庭的失落之城》《大围攻:马耳他1565》

A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the story In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Jack Tannous ar...(展开全部)

A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from ...(展开全部)

A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·巴尔(James Barr)，著名的中东史学者，著有《瓜分沙洲》(A Lineinthe Sand,中译本由社会科学文献出版社于2018年出版)。他曾在牛津大学圣安东尼学院做访问学者，担任过《每日电讯报》政治与城市话题撰稿人，还曾在金融服务行业、英国驻法国大使馆工作。他现居伦敦，是全职作家。

The popular portrayal of the medieval era as one of endless famine, war, and ignorance is itself ignorant&;overlooking brilliant advances in science, art, and literature. This beautifully illustrated collection illuminates the dark ages, telling the story of the period and such key figures as Joan of Arc, Marco Polo, and Saladin. Some 15 facsimile documents include Pope Innocen...(展开全部)

[英]安妮塔·贝克（AnitaBaker）著 作家，中世纪史专家，曾多年担任出版人、资深编辑，曾在世界上最古老的大学之一 ——西班牙萨拉曼卡大学学习中世纪法律和历史，对中世纪史有着专业的了解。

[英]安妮塔·贝克（AnitaBaker）著 作家，中世纪史专家，曾多年担任出版人、资深编辑，曾在世界上最古老的大学之一 ——西班牙萨拉曼卡大学学习中世纪法律和历史，对中世纪史有着专业的了解。

[英]安妮塔·贝克（AnitaBaker）著 作家，中世纪史专家，曾多年担任出版人、资深编辑，曾在世界上最古老的大学之一 ——西班牙萨拉曼卡大学学习中世纪法律和历史，对中世纪史有着专业的了解。

An award-winning scholar's account of an ancient city's descent into unprecedented communal violence--an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For eight days, violence raged, leaving five thousand Christians dead, thousands of shops loote...(展开全部)