(P/B) THE CRUSADES

Παρουσίαση

The Crusades were a startling and spectacular phenomenon which exerted a powerful influence on European development over a period of many centuries. Much recent writing has been devoted to explaining how the crusades began and what they achieved. Aimed both at postgraduates and at professional academics, this volume is intended as an introductory guide and analysis of how different aspects of crusading studies have developed. Rather than giving an account of events, each chapter offers an interpretative and historiographical study. The contributors include older scholars with a well-established reputation within and outside the field of crusading studies and younger scholars whose work has already made an impact within the field, working in France, Germany, Greece, the UK and the USA. Their various approaches to the debates they discuss present readers who are approaching the subject for the first time with an overview of the wide spectrum of views held by scholars in this area. (From the publisher)

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List of Figures
Preface
Chronology of the Crusades, 1095 - 1798
Chronology of Main Secondary Texts
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Definition and Scope
H.Nicholson
PART I: ASPECTS OF THE PRACTICE OF CRUSADING
Ideology and Motivation in the First Crusade
J.Flori
Crusading and Canon Law
J.Muldoon
Crusading Warfare
J.France
PART II: APPROACHES TO THE EVIDENCE
The Material Culture of the Crusades
M.Georgopoulou
Prosopography
A.V.Murray
Gender Theory
D.Gerish
Frontiers
N.Berend
Crusades and Colonization in the Baltic
S.Ekdahl
National Feeling and the Legacy of the Crusades
J.Richard
PART III: IMAGES OF THE PROTAGONISTS
The Crusaders' Perceptions of their Opponents
M.Jubb
Byzantine and Modern Greek Perceptions of the Crusades
E.Sakellariou
Muslim Reactions to the Crusades
H.Nicholson
Further Reader
Index