The Practices of Crusading: Image and Action from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries

ISBN-13: 9780367601645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str.

Christopher Tyerman

Opis

The crusades influenced western European society in the Middle Ages far beyond the military campaigns themselves. Reactions and involvement did not always follow the assumptions of ideology or supporters, medieval or modern. In this wide ranging collection of articles spanning thirty years, Christopher Tyerman explores the relationships between act

Recenzje

'... cette courte recension ne peut rendre justice de la richesse de chaque étude individuelle. Non seulement ceux qui sont intéressés par les croisades, mais aussi ceux qui s'intéressent à l'histoire politique, sociale et culturelle de l'Europe médiévale se doivent de posséder le recueil >>The Practices of Crusading<<.' Francia-Recensio '... presenting these essays together in this format affords the chance to trace the common themes and approaches which have informed a career-wide corpus of influential work.' English Historical Review

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Section A Early 14th-Century Crusading: Marino Sanudo Torsello and the lost crusade: lobbying in the 14th century; Philip V of France, the assemblies of 1319-20 and the crusade; Sed nihil fecit? The last Capetians and the recovery of the Holy Land; Court, crusade and city: the cultural milieu of Louis I, duke of Bourbon; Philip VI and the recovery of the Holy Land. Section B The Nature of Crusading: Were there any crusades in the 12th century?; Henry of Livonia and the ideology of crusading; Some English evidence of attitudes to crusading in the 13th century; The Holy Land and the crusades in the 13th and 14th centuries; What the crusades meant to Europe; Holy war, Roman popes, and Christian soldiers: some early modern views on medieval Christendom. Section C The Experience of Crusading: 'Principes et populous': civil society and the First Crusade; Who went on crusades to the Holy Land?; Paid crusaders. ‘Pro honoris vel pecunie’, ‘stipendiarii contra paganos’: money and incentives on crusade; Index.

O autorze

Christopher Tyerman is Senior Research Fellow and Tutor in History, Tutor for Graduates, Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK.