The crusades influenced western European society in the middle ages
far beyond the military campaigns themselves. Reactions and
involvement did not always follow the assumptions of ideology or
supporters, medieval or modern. In this wide ranging collection of
articles spanning thirty years, Christopher Tyerman explores the
relationships between action and perception, ambition and practice,
propaganda and support. One section concentrates on the role the
crusade played in the politics and elite culture of the early
fourteenth century, particularly in France. A further series of
essays examines the nature of crusading as a phenomenon from the
twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, notably the contrasts between
official, literary and popular reception, and how it was variously
understood by contemporaries and promoted by apologists in England,
continental Europe and the Baltic. Finally, the structure of
crusading armies is explored in a sequence that analyses the
organisation of expeditions, including communal decision-making on
the First Crusade, the sociology of recruitment and, in a
previously unpublished major study, the importance of pay to
crusaders from 1096 onwards.The crusades influenced western
European society in the middle ages far beyond the military
campaigns themselves. Reactions and involvement did not always
follow the assumptions of ideology or supporters, medieval or
modern. In this wide ranging collection of articles spanning thirty
years, Christopher Tyerman explores the relationships between
action and perception, ambition and practice, propaganda and
support. One section concentrates on the role the crusade played in
the politics and elite culture of the early fourteenth century,
particularly in France. A further series of essays examines the
nature of crusading as a phenomenon from the twelfth to the
sixteenth centuries, notably the contrasts between official,
literary and popular reception, and how it was variously understood
by contemporaries and promoted by apologists in England,
continental Europe and the Baltic. Finally, the structure of
crusading armies is explored in a sequence that analyses the
organisation of expeditions, including communal decision-making on
the First Crusade, the sociology of recruitment and, in a
previously unpublished major study, the importance of pay to
crusaders from 1096 onwards.
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