Bat Ye'or

I rated this book five stars because of the wealth of information I learned -both historical and contemporary information. In fact it is this book that prompted me to read 'A Short History of Byzantium' by Norwich. Bat Ye'or's observations and claims are also being posited by many other contemporay writers which in and of itself is an endorsement of her positions. I became familiar w/her work through other books and the Powerline blog that I read - -rather religiously. While the content is critically important you will need to be committed to the subject matter as Bat Ye'or writes in a rather academic and even dull style. She also repeats many of the same points often. Although the various points she repeats are important to the immediate subject matter, a little more creativity and variation on [re-:]expressing those points would have made for a better read.… (mer)