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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Tyerman, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, is a Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College, Oxford and a Lecturer in Medieval History at New College, Oxford Klappentext This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars of the cross themselves. Zusammenfassung This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood! shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars of the cross themselves. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's forewordPrefaceIntroduction1. Medieval views on the Crusades2. Reformation, revision, texts and nations 1500-17003. Reason, faith and progress: a contested Enlightenment4. Empathy and materialism: keeping the crusade up to date5. Scholarship, politics and the Golden Age of research6. The end of colonial consensus7. Erdmann and Runciman and the end of tradition8. Definitions and directionsEpilogueSelective guide to further readingIndex
