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1 online resource (xxii, 726 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge Worlds |
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Routledge worlds.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Adrian J. Boas -- Part I. Ideology, crusade, warfare and peace-making -- Pope Urban II and the ideology of the crusades / Paul Chevedden -- Women's involvement in the crusades / Helen Nicholson -- Crusading warfare in the twelfth century / John France -- Paid troops in the service of military orders during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Alan Forey -- Peacemaking in an age of war / Yvonne Friedman -- Part II. The crusader west -- The military-religious orders in the crusader west / Karl Borchardt -- Crusade, empire and the process of war in Staufen Germany, 1180-1219 / Daniel Franke -- Northern crusades: between holy war and mission / Darius von Güttner-Sporzynski -- Expansion in medieval Iberia: "reconquista" or crusade? / Luis García-Guijarro Ramos -- Part III. The Latin East -- The Venetians in Tyre and its rural hinterland / David Jacoby -- The Antiochene war of succession / Jochen Burgtorf -- The western Galilee under crusader rule / Rabei Khamisy -- Queen Alice of Cyprus: women and power in thirteenth-century Outremer / Bernard Hamilton -- The Franciscan return to the Holy Land (1333) and Mt. Sion: pilgrimage and the apostolic mission / Andrew Jotischky -- Part IV. Medieval Byzantium -- Byzantine crusaders: holy war and crusade rhetoric in Byzantine contacts with the west / Nikolaos Chrissis -- Memory and ideology: the terminology of crusading in byzantine historiography, 11th to 13th century / Aphrodite Papayianni -- The impact of the fall of Jerusalem in 1187 on Byzantine attitudes towards the crusades / Michael Angold -- Part V. Meeting Islam -- An illusion of ignorance? The Muslims of the Middle East and the Franks before the crusades / Niall Christie -- The Mamluks and the end of the crusader presence in Syria (1250-1291) / Reuven Amitai -- The Muslim political world as mirrored in the first crusade chronicles / Svetlana Luchitskaya -- Crusaders, Muslims and biblical stories: Saladin and Joseph / Yehoshua Frenkel -- Historical motifs in the writing of Muslim authors of the crusading era / Daniella Talmon-Heller -- Latin Cyprus and its relations with the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1517 / Nicholas Coureas -- The legal status of Christian mercenaries in Muslim lands / Michael Lower -- Part VI. Archaeology of the crusades -- Crusader fortifications: between tradition and innovation / Mathias Piana -- Archaeological and environmental perspectives of crusader battle sites / Raphael Lewis -- The Hospitaller Castle of Belvoir: setting the scene for a discussion of the topography, geology and the architecture / Vardit Shotten-Hallel, Eytan Sass and Lydia Perelis Grossowicz -- Maritime commerce in the Latin East as reflected in the import of ceramics / Edna Stern -- Domestic life in the Latin East / Adrian J. Boas -- From conquest to colonisation: the archaeology of the crusades in Prussia, Livonia and Lithuania / Aleks Pluskowski and Heiki Valk -- Intestinal parasites in the crusades: evidence for disease, diet, and migration / Piers Mitchell -- Part VII. Art and literature -- Decorative architectural sculpture in crusader Jerusalem: the eastern, western, and Armenian sources of a local visual culture / Nurith Kenaan-Kedar -- The impact of crusader art in the west / Jaroslav Folda -- Narratological readings of crusade narratives / Marcus Bull -- Part VIII. Studying the crusades -- From Sepphoris to Nazareth: aspects of crusader historiography and a new reading of the Nazareth sculpture / Gil Fishoff -- Joshua Prawer's historiographical contribution to the study of the crusades and the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem: fifty years later / Sophia Menache -- What are the crusades? / Gary Dickson |
| Summary |
The Crusader World is a multidisciplinary survey of the current state of research in the field of crusader studies, an area of study which has become increasingly popular in recent years. In this volume Adrian Boas draws together an impressive range of academics, including work from renowned scholars as well as a number of though-provoking pieces from emerging researchers, in order to provide broad coverage of the major aspects of the period. This authoritative work will play an important role in the future direction of crusading studies. This volume enriches present knowledge of the crusades, addressing such wide-ranging subjects as: intelligence and espionage, gender issues, religious celebrations in crusader Jerusalem, political struggles in crusader Antioch, the archaeological study of battle sites and fortifications, diseases suffered by the crusaders, crusading in northern Europe and Spain and the impact of Crusader art. The relationship between Crusaders and Muslims, two distinct and in many way opposing cultures, is also examined in depth, including a discussion of how the Franks perceived their enemies. Arranged into eight thematic sections, The Crusader World considers many central issues as well as a large number of less familiar topics of the crusades, crusader society, history and culture. With over 100 photographs, line drawings and maps, this impressive collection of essays is a key resource for students and scholars alike. -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Crusades.
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Crusades -- Historiography
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HISTORY -- World.
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Crusades
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Crusades -- Historiography
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Kreuzzüge
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Ideologie
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Kriegführung
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Kultur
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317408322 |
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9781317408321 |
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1317408314 |
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9781317408314 |
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9781315684154 |
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1315684152 |
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