The crusader world. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Adrian J. Boas.
• Authors: Boas, Adrian J, 1952-
• Editors: Boas, Adrian J, 1952-
• Contents: Introduction / Adrian J. Boas -- Part I. Ideology, crusade, warfare and peace-making -- Pope Urban II and the ideology of the crusades / Paul Chevedden -- Women's involvement in the crusades / Helen Nicholson -- Crusading warfare in the twelfth century / John France -- Paid troops in the service of military orders during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Alan Forey -- Peacemaking in an age of war / Yvonne Friedman -- Part II. The crusader west -- The military-religious orders in the crusader west / Karl Borchardt -- Crusade, empire and the process of war in Staufen Germany, 1180-1219 / Daniel Franke -- Northern crusades: between holy war and mission / Darius von Güttner-Sporzynski -- Expansion in medieval Iberia: "reconquista" or crusade? / Luis García-Guijarro Ramos -- Part III. The Latin East -- The Venetians in Tyre and its rural hinterland / David Jacoby -- The Antiochene war of succession / Jochen Burgtorf -- The western Galilee under crusader rule / Rabei Khamisy -- Queen Alice of Cyprus: women and power in thirteenth-century Outremer / Bernard Hamilton -- The Franciscan return to the Holy Land (1333) and Mt. Sion: pilgrimage and the apostolic mission / Andrew Jotischky -- Part IV. Medieval Byzantium -- Byzantine crusaders: holy war and crusade rhetoric in Byzantine contacts with the west / Nikolaos Chrissis -- Memory and ideology: the terminology of crusading in byzantine historiography, 11th to 13th century / Aphrodite Papayianni -- The impact of the fall of Jerusalem in 1187 on Byzantine attitudes towards the crusades / Michael Angold -- Part V. Meeting Islam -- An illusion of ignorance? The Muslims of the Middle East and the Franks before the crusades / Niall Christie -- The Mamluks and the end of the crusader presence in Syria (1250-1291) / Reuven Amitai -- The Muslim political world as mirrored in the first crusade chronicles / Svetlana Luchitskaya -- Crusaders, Muslims and biblical stories: Saladin and Joseph / Yehoshua Frenkel -- Historical motifs in the writing of Muslim authors of the crusading era / Daniella Talmon-Heller -- Latin Cyprus and its relations with the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1517 / Nicholas Coureas -- The legal status of Christian mercenaries in Muslim lands / Michael Lower -- Part VI. Archaeology of the crusades -- Crusader fortifications: between tradition and innovation / Mathias Piana -- Archaeological and environmental perspectives of crusader battle sites / Raphael Lewis -- The Hospitaller Castle of Belvoir: setting the scene for a discussion of the topography, geology and the architecture / Vardit Shotten-Hallel, Eytan Sass and Lydia Perelis Grossowicz -- Maritime commerce in the Latin East as reflected in the import of ceramics / Edna Stern -- Domestic life in the Latin East / Adrian J. Boas -- From conquest to colonisation: the archaeology of the crusades in Prussia, Livonia and Lithuania / Aleks Pluskowski and Heiki Valk -- Intestinal parasites in the crusades: evidence for disease, diet, and migration / Piers Mitchell -- Part VII. Art and literature -- Decorative architectural sculpture in crusader Jerusalem: the eastern, western, and Armenian sources of a local visual culture / Nurith Kenaan-Kedar -- The impact of crusader art in the west / Jaroslav Folda -- Narratological readings of crusade narratives / Marcus Bull -- Part VIII. Studying the crusades -- From Sepphoris to Nazareth: aspects of crusader historiography and a new reading of the Nazareth sculpture / Gil Fishoff -- Joshua Prawer's historiographical contribution to the study of the crusades and the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem: fifty years later / Sophia Menache -- What are the crusades? / Gary Dickson.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 909.07; Crusades; Crusades; Kreuzzüge; Ideologie; Kriegführung; Kultur; Kreuzzüge; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1317408314; 9781317408314; 9781315684154; 1315684152; 9781317408321; 1317408322
• Related ISBNs: 9780415824941; 041582494X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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