Description
Book SynopsisThis 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. -- .
Trade Review[An] Engaging and extremely worthwhile book
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 63 (3) July 2012
'It is Christopher Tyerman’s great achievement to have given us a coherent narrative which spans the very beginnings of recording the First Crusade to today’s analytical approaches to a medieval movement which has fascinated different ages for different reasons.'
Christoph T. Maie, Crusades, 2012
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Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. Medieval views on the Crusades
2. Reformation, revision, texts and nations 1500-1700
3. Reason, faith and progress: a contested Enlightenment
4. Empathy and materialism: keeping the crusade up to date
5. Scholarship, politics and the Golden Age of research
6. The end of colonial consensus
7. Erdmann and Runciman and the end of tradition
8. Definitions and directions
Epilogue
Selective guide to further reading
Index
