Encountering Islam on the First Crusade / Nicholas Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Nicholas (Nicholas Edward), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--First, 1096-1099.

Crusades.

Islam--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500.

Islam.

Christianity and other religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The First Crusade (1095-9) has often been characterised as a head-to-head confrontation between the forces of Christianity and Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a lasting rupture between these two faiths. Nevertheless, is such a characterisation borne out by the sources? Engagingly written and supported by a wealth of evidence, Encountering Islam on the First Crusade offers a major reinterpretation of the crusaders' attitudes towards the Arabic and Turkic peoples they encountered on their journey to Jerusalem. Nicholas Morton considers how they interpreted the new peoples, civilizations and landscapes they encountered; sights for which their former lives in Western Christendom had provided little preparation. Morton offers a varied picture of cross cultural relations, depicting the Near East as an arena in which multiple protagonists were pitted against each other. Some were fighting for supremacy, others for their religion, many simply for survival.

Contents:

Predicates

The launch of the First Crusade

The First Crusade and the conquest of Jerusalem

Aftermath.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-71922-7

1-316-72282-1

1-316-72342-9

1-316-72402-6

1-316-72462-X

1-316-72642-8

1-316-66166-0