While research on the crusades tends increasingly to bifurcate into
study of the crusade idea and the crusading expeditions, and study of
the Frankish states the crusaders established in the Levant, Benjamin
Kedar confirms-through the articles reproduced in this latest
selection of his articles-his adherence to the school that endeavours
to deal with both branches of research. Of the ten studies that deal
with the crusading expeditions, one examines the maps that might have
been available to the First Crusaders and their Muslim opponents,
another discusses in detail the Jerusalem massacre of July 1099 and
its place in Western historiography down to our days, a third sheds
light on the largely neglected doings of the Fourth Crusaders who
decided to sail to Acre rather than to Constantinople, while a fourth
exposes unknown features of the well-known sculpture of the returning
crusader-most probably Count Hugh I of Vaudémont- who is embracing
his wife. Of the ten studies that deal with the Frankish Levant, one
proposes a hypothesis on the composition stages of William of Tyre's
chronicle, another provides new evidence on the Latin hermits who
chose to live in the Frankish states, a third examines the catalogue
of the library of the cathedral of Nazareth, while a fourth calls
attention to convergences of Eastern Christians, Muslims and Franks in
sacred spaces and offers a typology of such events, and a fifth
proposes a methodology for the identification of trans-cultural
borrowing in the Frankish Levant.
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Studies in the History of the Crusades and the Frankish Levant
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781351947053
Publisert
2022
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1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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