These papers explore major themes in recent scholarship on the medieval crusade and its religious, political and cultural context, re-evaluating the issue of 'were the Templars guilty?' and suggesting their problem was one of organisation; one study looks at the impact and effect of the crusade on Jewish-Christian relations, another at crusaders and their interaction with indigenous Christians in the county of Edessa as a case study of developments in other crusader states; and there are papers on Peter the Hermit, on the political and religious context and impact of the Fourth Crusade, on the influence of the crusade on Piers Plowman, and on the political context for the failure of crusading ideals in fifteenth-century Burgundy. The contributors include: Alfred Andrea, Robert Chazan, Kelly Devries, Christopher Mcevitt, Thomas Madden, Jonathan Riley-Smith, William E. Rogers, and Jay Rubinstein. Susan J. Ridyard is Professor of History, University of the South.
This is a stimulating collection of essays and a volume which is essential for any serious student of the crusades. CRUSDAES A wide-ranging and well-produced collection. EHR
| Introduction : the crusades : sources, impact and context | p. 1 |
| Latin and Hebrew crusade chronicles : some shared themes | p. 15 |
| Crusading in Christian-Jewish polemics | p. 33 |
| How, or how much, to reevaluate Peter the Hermit | p. 53 |
| Christian authority in the Latin East : Edessa in crusader history | p. 71 |
| Venice, the papacy and the crusades before 1204 | p. 85 |
| Innocent III, the Fourth Crusade, and the coming apocalypse | p. 97 |
| Were the Templars guilty? | p. 107 |
| The structures of the orders of the temple and the hospital in c. 1291 | p. 125 |
| The C-revisions and the crusades in Piers Plowman | p. 145 |
| The failure of Philip the Good to fulfill his crusade promise of 1454 | p. 157 |
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ISBN: 9781843830870
ISBN-10: 1843830876
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 187
Published: 1st November 2004
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 2.1
Weight (kg): 0.454