Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria /

Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria / / edited by Shatzmiller.

This volume brings together papers by Crusades' experts from England, France, Canada and the United States discussing the confrontation between the Franks and Muslims in twelfth-century Syria, balancing the traditional European view with an Islamic perspective. Each author's individual con...

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Superior document:The Medieval Mediterranean ; 1
TeilnehmendeR:
Shatzmiller,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1993.
Year of Publication:1993
Language:English
Series:The Medieval Mediterranean ; 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:
  • Includes one contribution in French.
  • Papers presented at a conference held Nov. 1988, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Maya Shatzmiller
  • 1. History, the Crusades and the Latin East, 1095-1204: A Personal View
  • Jonathan Riley-Smith 1
  • 2. Latin Jurists in the Levant: The Legal Elite of the Crusader States
  • James A. Brundage 18
  • 3. Communes italiennes, pouvoir et habitants des Etats Francs de Syrie-Palestine au XIIe siecle
  • Michel Balard 43
  • 4. The Lord's War as the Proving Ground of Faith: Pope Innocent III and the Propagation of Violence (1198-1216)
  • John Gilchrist 65
  • 5. 'O God, the heathen have come into your inheritance' (Ps. 78.1): The Theme of Religious Pollution in Crusade Documents, 1095-1188
  • Penny Cole 84
  • 6. Alexander III and the Jerusalem Crusade: An Overview of Problems and Failures
  • John G. Rowe 112
  • 7. Imad al-Din al-Isfahani: Administrator, Litterateur and Historian
  • Donald S. Richards 133
  • 8. The Crusading Stratum in the Arabic Hero Cycles
  • Malcolm C. Lyons 147
  • 9. The Reaction of the Syrian Muslims after the Foundation of the first Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
  • Nikita Elisseeff 162
  • 10. Propaganda and Faction in the Kingdom of Jerusalem: The Background to Hattin
  • Peter W. Edbury 173
  • 11. Diplomatic Relations Between Muslim and Frankish Rulers 1097-1153 A.D.
  • Hadia Dajani-Shakeel 190
  • Abbreviations 216
  • Bibliography 217
  • Index 233.

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