[History] Helen Nicholson (ed.) - Palgrave Advances in the Crusades (2005)

AnnotationNicholson, Helen (ed.). Palgrave Advances in the Crusades. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

List of FiguresPrefaceChronology of the Crusades, 1095-1798Chronology of Main Secondary TextsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Definition and Scope; H.NicholsonPART I: ASPECTS OF THE PRACTICE OF CRUSADINGIdeology and Motivation in the First Crusade; J.FloriCrusading and Canon Law; J.MuldoonCrusading Warfare; J.FrancePART II: APPROACHES TO THE EVIDENCEThe Material Culture of the Crusades; M.GeorgopoulouProsopography; A.V.MurrayGender Theory; D.GerishFrontiers; N.BerendCrusades and Colonization in the Baltic; S.EkdahlNational Feeling and the Legacy of the Crusades; J.RichardPART III: IMAGES OF THE PROTAGONISTSThe Crusaders' Perceptions of their Opponents; M.JubbByzantine and Modern Greek Perceptions of the Crusades; E.SakellariouMuslim Reactions to the Crusades; H.NicholsonFurther ReaderIndex

The Crusades were a startling and spectacular phenomenon which exerted a powerful influence on European development over a period of many centuries. Much recent writing has been devoted to explaining how the crusades began and what they achieved. Aimed both at postgraduates and at professional academics, this volume is intended as an introductory guide and analysis of how different aspects of crusading studies have developed. Rather than giving an account of events, each chapter offers an interpretative and historiographical study. The contributors include older scholars with a well-established reputation within and outside the field of crusading studies and younger scholars whose work has already made an impact within the field, working in France, Germany, Greece, the UK and the USA. Their various approaches to the debates they discuss present readers who are approaching the subject for the first time with an overview of the wide spectrum of views held by scholars in this area.