The Crusades and the Near East: Cultural Histories

by Kostick; Conor

• ISBN13: 9780415580410
• ISBN10: 0415580412
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-11-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 identities of each side, but on the other to a growing level of cultural exchange and interaction. This volume breaks new ground in not only exploring the conflict between the Christian and the Muslim worlds, but also the impact of this conflict on the cultural evolution of European and Near Eastern thought and practices. Utilising the latest scholarship and original studies of the sources, this survey sheds new light on the cultural realities of East-West relations and marks a new departure for studies of the crusades.Contributors include John France, Yehoshua Frenkel, Chris Wright, Natasha Hodgson, A.V. Murray, Sini Kangas, Léan Ní Chléirigh, Susan Edgington, Jürgen Krüger, Yvonne Friedman and Bernard Hamilton.

Author Biography

Contributors include Lean Ni Chlirigh, Susan B. Edgington, John France, Yehoshua Frenkel, Yvonne Friedman, Bernard Hamilton, Natasha Hodgson, Sim Kangas, Jurgen Kruger, Alan V. Murray and Chris Wright.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Warfare in the Mediterranean region in the age of the crusades, 1095-1291: a clash of contrasts	p. 9
Muslim responses to the Frankish dominion in the Near East, 1098-1291	p. 27
On the margins of Christendom: the impact of the crusades on Byzantium	p. 55
Conflict and cohabitation: marriage and diplomacy between Latins and Cilician Armenians, c.1097-1253	p. 83
National identity, language and conflict in die crusades to the Holy Land, 1096-1192	p. 107
Inimicus Dei et sanctae Christianitasis Saracens and their Prophet in twelfth-century crusade propaganda and western travesties of Muhammad's life	p. 131
The impact of the First Crusade on Western opinion towards the Byzantine Empire: the Dei Gesta per Francos of Guibert of Nogent and die Historia Hierosolymitana of Fulcher of Chartres	p. 161
Oriental and occidental medicine in the crusader states	p. 189
Architecture of the crusaders in the Holy Land: the first European colonial architecture?	p. 216
Peacemaking: perceptions and practices in the medieval Latin East	p. 229
Afterword	p. 258
Index	p. 263
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