Crusaders and Franks : studies in the history of the Crusades and the Frankish Levant

Summary: 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 Vaudmont- 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780815366850
ISBN: 081536685X
ISBN: 9781351947060
ISBN: 9781351947053
ISBN: 9781351947046
ISBN: 9781315258775
ISBN: 1351947060
ISBN: 1351947052
ISBN: 1351947044
ISBN: 1315258773
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations, maps, 1 portrait (frontispiece)
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Computer data.
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge, 2017.
Copyright: �2016

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General Note:	CatMonthString.july.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Biographical or Historical Data:	Benjamin Z. Kedar is an emeritus professor of history at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Language Note:	Texts in English, French. Italian, German.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.