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Mar. 18th, 2006 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfishieI'm officially hermiting most of this weekend. I'm not quite feeling up to snuff. I wasn't feeling up to company last night and there wasn't much chance of me getting to the Endgame playtest, plus getting others sick isn't the best way to win friends and influence people. ;)
So I'm home. In between feverish bouts, I've cleaned up a bit, watched far too much StarGate Season 1, which I became vaguelly addicted to while I was home recouping from having my tonsils out, and I'm about to dig into my new copy of "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes". I was so happy when this came in the mail today, I'm such a history geek and I've wanted to read this book for awhile. It's basically about how European ideas and Arab ideas of the Crusades vary so greatly. Europe remembers an epic effort to reconquer the Holy Land. The Middle East has more of a memory of unprovoked invasian by barbarian hordes. The Middle Eastern version is all about Saladin and the heroic story of how Muslims overcame their rivalaries to win a holy war. The repurcusions of this (obviously and dramatically) can still be felt in the Middle East today and how they deal with the west.
So I'm home. In between feverish bouts, I've cleaned up a bit, watched far too much StarGate Season 1, which I became vaguelly addicted to while I was home recouping from having my tonsils out, and I'm about to dig into my new copy of "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes". I was so happy when this came in the mail today, I'm such a history geek and I've wanted to read this book for awhile. It's basically about how European ideas and Arab ideas of the Crusades vary so greatly. Europe remembers an epic effort to reconquer the Holy Land. The Middle East has more of a memory of unprovoked invasian by barbarian hordes. The Middle Eastern version is all about Saladin and the heroic story of how Muslims overcame their rivalaries to win a holy war. The repurcusions of this (obviously and dramatically) can still be felt in the Middle East today and how they deal with the west.
