Crusading Commonplaces
Author | : Michael John Heath |
Publisher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Crusades |
ISBN | : 9782600031202 |
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Author | : Michael John Heath |
Publisher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Crusades |
ISBN | : 9782600031202 |
Author | : Christopher MacEvitt |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812220838 |
In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Muslims and Jews but also local Christians, whose culture and traditions were a world apart from their own. The crusader-occupied swaths of Syria and Palestine were home to many separate Christian communities: Greek and Syrian Orthodox, Armenians, and other sects with sharp doctrinal differences. How did these disparate groups live together under Frankish rule? In The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, Christopher MacEvitt marshals an impressive array of literary, legal, artistic, and archeological evidence to demonstrate how crusader ideology and religious difference gave rise to a mode of coexistence he calls "rough tolerance." The twelfth-century Frankish rulers of the Levant and their Christian subjects were separated by language, religious practices, and beliefs. Yet western Christians showed little interest in such differences. Franks intermarried with local Christians and shared shrines and churches, but they did not hesitate to use military force against Christian communities. Rough tolerance was unlike other medieval modes of dealing with religious difference, and MacEvitt illuminates the factors that led to this striking divergence. "It is commonplace to discuss the diversity of the Middle East in terms of Muslims, Jews, and Christians," MacEvitt writes, "yet even this simplifies its religious complexity." While most crusade history has focused on Christian-Muslim encounters, MacEvitt offers an often surprising account by examining the intersection of the Middle Eastern and Frankish Christian worlds during the century of the First Crusade.
Author | : Michael J. Heath |
Publisher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 2600331204 |
L'Europe au XVIe siècle a vécu à l'ombre de la menace turque. A quels auteurs cette situation n'a-t-elle pas inspiré quelque chose ? La situation des Français, à cet égard, avait quelque chose d'ambigu, à cause des alliances turques de leurs rois. La Noue rêve pourtant de croisades contre les Turcs, pour unifier catholiques et huguenots, cependant que René de Lucinge, qui était allé les voir de près, étudie les failles de la vie turque, par où on pourrait introduire une propagande affaiblissante : ce n'est alors plus la croisade mais la "guerre psychologique" qui se dessine.
Author | : Christopher MacEvitt |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812202694 |
In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Muslims and Jews but also local Christians, whose culture and traditions were a world apart from their own. The crusader-occupied swaths of Syria and Palestine were home to many separate Christian communities: Greek and Syrian Orthodox, Armenians, and other sects with sharp doctrinal differences. How did these disparate groups live together under Frankish rule? In The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, Christopher MacEvitt marshals an impressive array of literary, legal, artistic, and archeological evidence to demonstrate how crusader ideology and religious difference gave rise to a mode of coexistence he calls "rough tolerance." The twelfth-century Frankish rulers of the Levant and their Christian subjects were separated by language, religious practices, and beliefs. Yet western Christians showed little interest in such differences. Franks intermarried with local Christians and shared shrines and churches, but they did not hesitate to use military force against Christian communities. Rough tolerance was unlike other medieval modes of dealing with religious difference, and MacEvitt illuminates the factors that led to this striking divergence. "It is commonplace to discuss the diversity of the Middle East in terms of Muslims, Jews, and Christians," MacEvitt writes, "yet even this simplifies its religious complexity." While most crusade history has focused on Christian-Muslim encounters, MacEvitt offers an often surprising account by examining the intersection of the Middle Eastern and Frankish Christian worlds during the century of the First Crusade.
Author | : Ben Mohning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Civilization, Medieval |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William J. Purkis |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843833964 |
For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took religious vows, crusaders were repeatedly depicted as being driven by a desire to imitate Christ and to live according to the values of the primitive Church. This book argues that the significance of these descriptions has yet to be fully appreciated, and suggests that the origins and early development of crusading should be studied within the context of the "reformation" of professed religious life in the twelfth century, whose leading figures (such as St Bernard of Clairvaux) advocated the pursuit of devotional undertakings that were modelled on the lives of Christ and his apostles. It also considers topics such as the importance of pilgrimage to early crusading ideology and the relationship between the spirituality of crusading and the activities of the Military Orders, offering a revisionist assessment of how crusading ideas adapted and evolved when introduced to the Iberian peninsula in c.1120. In so doing, the book situates crusading within a broader context of changes in the religious culture of the medieval West. Dr WILLIAM PURKIS is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham.