Maggie's Farm

The core of the Library Journal review on the Amazon page: "Splendidly illustrated, cleverly and wittily written, the book is likely to do a great deal of damage. It is rife with errors of fact, anachronisms, and vulgarisms. Worse, it is pervaded with a vicious, if politically correct, anti-Catholic bigotry, suggesting that the authors know very little medieval history (although a bibliography does list some of the standard reference works on the crusades). With no reference to Muslim Spain, generally acknowledged as the source of the crusading idea; with no concept of the social or cultural implications (what of women, mathematics, medicine, diet, etc.?); without even a definition of the term crusade, the authors explain the various movements solely as sporadic events linked by religious fanaticism. Westerners today pay a heavy price for their ignorance of the Middle East and their imperialistic exploitation of that region. The general public to whom the book is directed deserves better than they get here.
Bennett D. Hill, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C."

You're welcome.

It pains me that Jones has gone that way because I grew up with Monty Python's Flying circus and their Holy Grail comedy and love it all.

There has been a lot of really bad history done over the last few centuries that is thinly disguised anti-Catholic history. That history typically got re-spun as anti-Western history in the 20th century.

Thanks for the recommendation!

Thanks for the tip! Alas, these all seem to be out of print, but there are used copies for a couple of them on Amazon.