Contributor
Boas, Adrian J., 1952- editor, author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Descriptionxxii, 726 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note:Introduction / Adrian J. Boas -- Part I. Ideology, crusade, warfare and peace-making -- Pope Urban II and the ideology of the crusades / Paul E. Chevedden -- Women's involvement in the crusades / Helen J. Nicholson -- 'Crusading' warfare in the twelfth century / John France -- Paid troops in the service of military orders during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Alan Forey -- Peacemaking in an age of war: when were cross-religious alliances in the Latin East considered treason? / Yvonne Friedman -- Part II. The crusader west -- The military-religious orders in the crusader west / Karl Borchardt -- Crusade, empire and the process of war in Staufen Germany, 1180-1220 / Daniel P. Franke -- Northern crusades: between holy war and mission / Darius von Güttner-Sporzynski -- Christian expansion in medieval Iberia: reconquista or crusade? / Luis García-Guijarro Ramos -- Part III. The Latin East -- The Venetian presence in the crusader lordship of Tyre: a tale of decline / David Jacoby -- The Antiochene war of succession / Jochen Burgtorf -- Western Upper Galilee under crusader rule / Rabei G. Khamisy -- Queen Alice of Cyprus / Bernard Hamilton -- The Franciscan return to the Holy Land (1333) and Mt. Sion: pilgrimage and the apostolic mission / Andrew Jotischky -- Part IV. Medieval Byzantium -- Byzantine crusaders: holy war and crusade rhetoric in Byzantine contacts with the west (1095-1341) / Nikolaos G. Chrissis -- Memory and ideology: the image of the crusades in byzantine historiography, 11th to 13th centuries / Aphrodite Papayianni -- The fall of Jerusalem (1187) as viewed from Byzantium / Michael Angold -- Part V. Meeting Islam -- An illusion of ignorance? The Muslims of the Middle East and the Franks before the crusades / Niall Christie -- The early Mamluks and the end of the crusader presence in Syria (1250-1291) / Reuven Amitai -- The Muslim political world as mirrored in the first crusade chronicles / Svetlana Luchitskaya -- Crusaders, Muslims and
Note:biblical stories: Saladin and Joseph / Yehoshua Frenkel -- Historical motifs in the writing of Muslim authors of the crusading era / Daniella Talmon-Heller -- Latin Cyprus and its relations with the Mamluk sultanate, 1250-1517 / Nicholas Coureas -- Christian mercenaries in Muslim lands: their status in medieval Islamic and canon law / Michael Lower -- Part VI. Archaeology of the crusades -- Crusader fortifications: between tradition and innovation / Mathias Piana -- Crusader battlefields: environmental and archaeological perspectives / Raphael Y. Lewis -- The Hospitaller Castle of Belvoir: setting the scene for a discussion of the topography, geology and architecture / Vardit Shotten-Hallel, Eytan Sass and Lydia Perelis Grossowicz -- Maritime commerce in the Latin East as reflected in the import of ceramics / Edna J. Stern -- Domestic life in the Latin East / Adrian J. Boas -- Conquest and Europeanisation: the archaeology of the crusades in Prussia, Livonia and Lithuania / Aleksander Pluskowski and Heiki Valk -- Intestinal parasites in the crusades: evidence for disease, diet, and migration / Piers D. Mitchell -- Part VII. Art and literature -- Decorative architectural sculpture in crusader Jerusalem: the eastern, western, and Armenian sources of a local visual culture / Nurith Kenaan-Kedar -- Crusader art and the West: thoughts on assessing the impact of art from the crusader East on medieval art in western Europe, especially in central Italy / Jaroslav Folda -- Narratological readings of crusade narratives / Marcus Bull -- Part VIII. Studying the crusades -- From Sepphoris to Nazareth: aspects of crusader historiography and a new reading of the Nazareth sculpture / Gil Fishoff -- After twenty-five years: Joshua Prawer's contribution to the study of the crusades and the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem reconsidered / Sophia Menache -- What are the crusades? / Gary Dickson.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
