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Retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, presents an intriguing chronicle of the Crusades, and offers insights into the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today. "European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. What the West rem…
"This new translation offers a faithful yet accessible English-language rendering of the twelfth-century Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolomitanorum, the earliest known Latin account of the First Crusade. The exemplar for all later histories and retellings of the First Crusade…
Crusading fervor gripped Europe for more than 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary episodes in world history. But were the Crusades the first steps in European colonialism, an attempt at ethnic cleansing, a manifestation of religious zeal--or all three? Bringing tog…
"This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism – the memory of the crusades and crusading rhetoric and imagery – in Britain, from Walter Scott’s The Talisman (1825) to the end of the Second World War. It seeks to understand why and when the crusades and crusading were …
"This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism - the memory of the crusades and crusading rhetoric and imagery - in Britain, from Walter Scott's The Talisman (1825) to the end of the Second World War. It seeks to understand why and when the crusades and crusading were …
"This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism--the memory of the crusades and crusading rhetoric and imagery--in Britain, from Walter Scott's The Talisman (1825) to the end of the Second World War. It seeks to understand why and when the crusades and crusading were po…
Perceptions of the Crusades from the Ninetenth to the Twenty-First Century explores the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries, including the varying uses of crusading rhetoric and imagery in both the East and West. It considers the scope and impact …
The Crusades : the nineteenth-century readers' perspective / Elizabeth Siberry -- Creating chivalrous imperial crusaders : the crusades in juvenile literature from Scott to Newbolt, 1825-1917 / Mike Horswell -- "May God punish England!" : pseudo-crusading language and holy war m…
Crusades: medieval worlds in conflict
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Jihad poetry in the age of the crusades / Carole Hillenbrand -- Crucified with Christ: the imitation of the crucified Christ and crusading spirituality / C. Matthew Phillips -- Brothers in arms: hermandades among the military orders in Medieval Iberia / Sam Zeno Conedera -- The …
These essays, selected from papers presented at the International Symposium on Crusade Studies in 2006, represent a cross-section of this field. The range of studies in this volume includes subjects such as Muslim ad Christian understandings of their wars within their own intell…