The First Crusade (1095-9) has often been characterised as a
head-to-head confrontation between the forces of Christianity and
Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a lasting rupture
between these two faiths. Nevertheless, is such a characterisation
borne out by the sources? Engagingly written and supported by a
wealth of evidence, Encountering Islam on the First Crusade offers
a major reinterpretation of the crusaders' attitudes towards the
Arabic and Turkic peoples they encountered on their journey to
Jerusalem. Nicholas Morton considers how they interpreted the new
peoples, civilizations and landscapes they encountered; sights for
which their former lives in Western Christendom had provided little
preparation. Morton offers a varied picture of cross cultural
relations, depicting the Near East as an arena in which multiple
protagonists were pitted against each other. Some were fighting for
supremacy, others for their religion, and many simply for survival.
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