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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.07; 956.014
• Soggetto topico: Crusades
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KostickConor <1964->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Crusades and the Near East
• ISBN: 1-136-90247-3; 1-136-90248-1; 1-282-93009-5; 9786612930096; 0-203-84197-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459759203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II