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The Crusades (Hardcover, New)
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The Crusades (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies
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The Crusades is an area of rapidly expanding interest. Students
increasingly see an understanding of the roots of religious
violence and of interaction between Christian and Islamic cultures
as a critical tool for citizenship in the modern world. This is
borne out by the large number of general books written on
crusading, from 'popular' narrative histories to more academic
analyses. Not even the best general survey, however, can afford the
level of detailed argument based on careful analysis of evidence
that can be presented in a more narrowly focused article or essay.
This collection makes available a group of carefully selected
articles which, taken together, develop themes and problematics in
crusading history. Articles include the papal reform movement, the
development of a theory of holy war, the Reconquista in Spain, the
theology of penance, pilgrimage and devotion to the Holy Land, the
Seljuqs and the political dynamics of the Near East in the late
11th century, military and logistical technologies in crusading,
the Islamic response under Nur ad-Din and Saladin and the fall of
Jerusalem in 1187, the fall of the Ayyubid dynasty and the rise of
the Mamluks, the emergence of the Mongols, the kingdom of Cyprus,
the fall of the Crusader States 1260s-1291, crusading in the later
Middle Ages, the treatment of indigenous peoples under western
rule, the development of crusader visual culture in the east,
church building, castles, settlement patterns and the economy of
the crusader states. Comprehensively indexed and with an
introduction by the editor, a leading expert in the field, The
Crusades is a key work of reference destined to be an essential
research and teaching resource.
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