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The crusades and the Christian world of the East : rough tolerance / Christopher MacEvitt.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
MacEvitt, Christopher Hatch, 1972-
Contributor:
University of Pennsylvania. Press.
Series:
Middle Ages series
The Middle Ages series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Crusades.
Franks--History.
Franks.
History.
Middle East--Religion.
Middle East.
Religion.
Genre:
Electronic books.
History.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 272 pages) : illustrations, map.
Other Title:
Penn Press e-books.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Summary:
In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Muslims and Jews but also local Christians, whose culture and traditions were a world apart from their own. The crusader-occupied swaths of Syria and Palestine were home to many separate Christian communities: Greek and Syrian Orthodox, Armenians, and other sects with sharp doctrinal differences. How did these disparate groups live together under Frankish rule?
In The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, Christopher MacEvitt marshals an impressive array of literary, legal, artistic, and archaeological evidence to demonstrate how crusader ideology and religious difference gave rise to a mode of coexistence unlike any other in the medieval world.
Contents:
Satan unleashed : the Christian Levant in the eleventh century
Close encounters of the ambiguous kind : when Crusaders and locals meet
Images of authority in Edessa, 1100-1150
Rough tolerance and ecclesiastical ignorance
The legal and social staus of local inhabitants in the Frankish Levant
The price of unity : ecumenical negotiations and the end of rough tolerance.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-251) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: MacEvitt, Christopher Hatch, 1972- Crusades and the Christian world of the East.
ISBN:
9780812202694
0812202694
OCLC:
759158182
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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