Book Review, "Pelagious and the Fifth Crusade" by Donovan

        The era of Medival Europe that spawned the crusades was very fascinating on many levels. At this time the church and the state were fighting for supremacy and the church found something that it could use as a prod against the secular rulers. The Christian faith permeated the every day lives of the vast majority of people in Europe at this time. Of course any good Christian would see the need to support the church …

…book was that all of this information was presented in such a dry matter of fact manner. There is no emotion and one does not get the sense of the characters as real people, especially Pelagious around whom the book is written. I would like to see an account of this time that delves into the people who were major players. Bibliography         Donovan, Joseph P. Pelagious and the Fifth Crusade. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950.