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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785328003321

Titolo

The Crusades and the Near East / / edited by Conor Kostick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-90247-3

1-136-90248-1

1-282-93009-5

9786612930096

0-203-84197-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KostickConor <1964->

Disciplina

909.07

956.014

Soggetti

Crusades

Middle East History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 WARFARE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION IN THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES, 1095-1291; 2 MUSLIM RESPONSES TO THE FRANKISH DOMINION IN THE NEAR EAST, 1098-1291; 3 ON THE MARGINS OF CHRISTENDOM: The impact of the crusades on Byzantium; 4 CONFLICT AND COHABITATION: Marriage and diplomacy between Latins and Cilician Armenians, c.1097-1253; 5 NATIONAL IDENTITY, LANGUAGE AND CONFLICT IN THE CRUSADES TO THE HOLY LAND, 1096-1192

6 INIMICUS DEI ET SANCTAE CHRISTIANITATIS?: Saracens and their Prophet in twelfth-century crusade propaganda and western travesties of Muhammad's life7 THE IMPACT OF THE FIRST CRUSADE ON WESTERN OPINION TOWARDS THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE: The Dei Gesta per Francos of Guibert of Nogent and the Historia Hierosolymitana of Fulcher of Chartres; 8 ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL MEDICINE IN THE CRUSADER STATES; 9 ARCHITECTURE OF THE CRUSADERS IN THE HOLY LAND: The first European colonial architecture?; 10 PEACEMAKING: Perceptions and



practices in the medieval Latin East; AFTERWORD; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The crusades are often seen as epitomising a period when hostility between Christian West and the Muslim Near East reached an all time high. As this edited volume reveals, however, the era was one which saw both conflict and cohabitation.Tackling such questions as whether medicinal and architectural innovations came to Europe as a direct result of the Crusades, and why and how peace treaties and intermarriages were formed between the different cultures, this distinguished group of contributors reveal how the Holy Wars led on the one hand to a reinforcement of the beliefs and identiti