The Crusades and the Christian World of the East : Rough Tolerance / Christopher MacEvitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacEvitt, Christopher, author.

Series:

The Middle Ages Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--History.

Crusades.

Franks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

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 archeological evidence to demonstrate how crusader ideology and religious difference gave rise to a mode of coexistence he calls "rough tolerance." The twelfth-century Frankish rulers of the Levant and their Christian subjects were separated by language, religious practices, and beliefs. Yet western Christians showed little interest in such differences. Franks intermarried with local Christians and shared shrines and churches, but they did not hesitate to use military force against Christian communities. Rough tolerance was unlike other medieval modes of dealing with religious difference, and MacEvitt illuminates the factors that led to this striking divergence."It is commonplace to discuss the diversity of the Middle East in terms of Muslims, Jews, and Christians," MacEvitt writes, "yet even this simplifies its religious complexity." While most crusade history has focused on Christian-Muslim encounters, MacEvitt offers an often surprising account by examining the intersection of the Middle Eastern and Frankish Christian worlds during the century of the First Crusade.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Transliteration and Names

Map

Introduction

Chapter 1. Satan Unleashed: The Christian Levant in the Eleventh Century

Chapter 2. Close Encounters of the Ambiguous Kind: When Crusaders and Locals Meet

Chapter 3. Images of Authority in Edessa, 1100-1150

Chapter 4. Rough Tolerance and Ecclesiastical Ignorance

Chapter 5. The Legal and Social Status of Local Inhabitants in the Frankish Levant

Chapter 6. The Price of Unity: Ecumenical Negotiations and the End of Rough Tolerance

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613211835

9781283211833

1283211831

9780812202694

0812202694

OCLC:

759158182