Contributor
Jensen, Kurt Villads, editor of compilation.
Imprint:Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2013.
Description329 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Note:International conference held at the Danish Institute in Damascus, October 5-9, 2009.
Note:Introduction / Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen and Helle Vogt -- Cultural Encounters and Clash of Civilisations. Huntington and Modern Crusading Studies / Kurt Villads Jensen -- The View of the Crusades from Rome and Damascus. The Geo-Strategic and Historical Perspectives of Pope Urban II and ‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami / Paul E. Chevedden -- Saints, Sinners & Civilisers -- or Converts, Cowards & Conquerors. Cultural Encounters in the Medieval Baltic / Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen -- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr and his View of Saladin / Jonathan Phillips -- King Erik Emune (1134-1137) and the Crusades. The Impact of Crusading Ideology on Early Twelfth-Century Denmark / Janus Møller Jensen -- The Hero Meets His Match. Cultural Encounters in Narratives of Wars against Muslims / Helen J. Nicholson -- First in Prowess and Faith. The Great Encounter in Twelfth-Century Crusader Narratives / Sini Kangas -- Qur'anic Imagery, Jesus and the Creation of a Pious-Warrior Ethos in the Muslim Poetry of the Anti-Frankish Jihad / Osman Latiff -- Gratian on Pagans and Infidels. A Short Outline / Bertil Nilsson -- Unlicensed Pilgrims and Illegal Trade. Late Medieval Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean according to the Archives of the Apostolic Penitentiary 1458-1464 / Kirsi Salonen -- One God or Two : the Rationality behind Manuel I Komnenos' Attempted Reform of the Abjuration Formula for Converts from Islam / Christian Høgel -- Der Einfluss des Islams auf die christlich-orientalische Rechtskultur / Hubert Kaufhold -- Cultural Encounters in the Latin East. John of Jaffa and Philip of Novara / Peter Edbury -- Legal Encounters in Estonia under Danish Rule, 1219-1347 / Helle Vogt -- Pilgrimage, Procession and Ritual Encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Crusader States / Andrew Jotischky -- The Armenian Kingdom and the Mongol-Frankish Encounter / Angus Stewart -- The Arabists and Crusader Studies in the Twentieth Century / Robert Irwin -- The Crusades in Arab Film and TV. The Case of Baybars / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
