The Experience of Crusading

A collection of essays focusing on the history and politics of the Latin East.

Peter Edbury (Edited by), Jonathan Phillips (Edited by)

9780521781510, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 June 2003

328 pages, 7 b/w illus. 1 map
23.7 x 16.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.65 kg

'… there is something for everyone here …' Church Times

The study of the crusades is one of the most thriving areas of medieval history. This collection of seventeen further essays by leading researchers in the field reflects the best of contemporary scholarship. The subjects handled are remarkably wide-ranging, focusing on the history of the Latin East and its place in the context of Mediterranean trade and Near Eastern political developments. Chronologically, the essays range from the initial settlements at the time of the First Crusade to the way in which historians in more recent centuries have chosen to reconstruct the medieval epoch. Together with its companion volume, The Experience of Crusading: Volume 1, The Experience of Crusading - edited by Marcus Bull and Norman Housley - this collection has been published to celebrate the 65th birthday of Jonathan Riley-Smith, the leading British historian of the crusades. The volume includes an appreciation of his contribution to the study of the Latin East.

Jonathan Riley-Smith, the crusades and the Latin east: an appreciation Jonathan Phillips with Peter Edbury
Part I. People and Politics: 1. The 'muddy road' of Odo Arpin from Bourges to La Charité-sur-Loire Jonathan Shepard
2. Alice of Antioch: a case study of female power in the twelfth century Tom Asbridge
3. Gaufridus abbas Templi Domini: an underestimated figure in the early history of the kingdom of Jerusalem Rudolf Hiestand
4. The career of Philip of Nablus in the kingdom of Jerusalem Malcolm Barber
Part II. Re-reading the Sources: 5. A second incarnation in Frankish Jerusalem Benjamin Z. Kedar
6. The Old French translation of William of Tyre as an historical source Bernard Hamilton
7. The Freiburg leaf: crusader art and loca sancta around the year 1200 Jaroslav Folda
8. Reading John of Jaffa Peter Edbury
Part III. History and Historiography: 9. Churches and settlement in crusader Palestine Denys Pringle
10. King Fulk of Jerusalem as city lord Hans Eberhard Mayer
11. The adventure of John Gale, knight of Tyre Jean Richard
12. Hülegü Khan and the christians: the making of a myth Peter Jackson
13. Orientalism and the early development of crusader studies Robert Irwin
Part IV. Commerce in Context: 14. Notes on the economic consequences of the crusades Michel Balard
15. New Venetian evidence on crusader Acre David Jacoby
16. The role of the Templars and the Hospitallers in the movement of commodities involving Cyprus, 1291–1312 Nicholas Coureas
17. From Tunis to Piombino: piracy and trade in the Tyrrhenian Sea, 1397–1472 David Abulafia.

Subject Areas: History of religion [HRAX], Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict [HRAM9], Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], Asian history [HBJF], European history [HBJD]