Crusade: The Uses of a Word from the Middle Ages to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781032442358 / Twarda / 2024 / 232 str.

Opis

This book offers the first comprehensive view of the historical construction of the meaning of the word ‘crusade’ through comparative perspectives from the Middle Ages to the 21^st century.

Spis treści

01. Introduction – Benjamin Weber

02. From Kriuzvart to Kreuzzug. German Words for Crusade and their Usage from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth centuries – Christoph T. Maier, University of Zurich, Switzerland

03. Crociata in the history of Italian language – Daniele d’Aguanno, University of Naples, L’Orientale, Italy

04. Krucjata, krzyżowcy, krzyżacy. A Short Historical Outline of the Polish Crusading Terminology – Paul Srodecki, University of Kiel, Germany

05. Croisade : sens et usages entre deux rives encore opposées – Fatma Ahmad Kamel, University of Cairo, Egypt / University of Paris XII, France

06. Histoire du mot croisade dans le Dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Un chassé-croisé sémantique et une construction lexicographique tardive – Caroline Salagnac, Praxiling, Université de Montpellier, France

07. Croisade(s) et dictionnaires français : une étude diachronique – Rosa Cetro, University of Pisa, Italy

08. Crucifixion, Cross and Crusade: Crusading Terminology in Old French Crusading Chansons de Geste – Carol Sweetenham, University of Warwick / Royal Holloway, London, England

09. Crusading against France, 1789-1815 – Elizabeth Siberry, Independent Scholar

10. Lutter contre l’immoralité : une « croisade morale » ? L’exemple des ligues de vertu sous les débuts de la Troisième République – Philippe Fache, Université Sorbonne Paris-nord, France

11. “The last crusade”? The Italian Public Opinion in front of the Conquest of Jerusalem in 1917 – Francesco Cutolo, University of Pisa, Italy

12. Crusade(s) Reloaded. On the Ideological Use of a Polymyth in the Twenty-First Century – Paul Srodecki, University of Kiel, Germany

13. Conclusion – Daniele Menozzi, scuola normale superiore di Pisa, Italy

Bibliography

O autorze

Benjamin Weber, PhD in medieval history, is an associate researcher at the University of Toulouse, France and at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He has published several books and articles on the history of the crusades in the end of the Middle Ages, and, more recently, on historical linguistics of the word “crusade”.