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- 1From:The Historian (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA Concise History of the Crusades. By Thomas F. Madden. (Lanham, Md.: Rowan and Littlefield, 1999. Pp. xii, 249. $12.95.) To write a history of crusading in a single volume of fewer than 250 pages is a daunting...
- 2From:Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Issue 38) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores Arabic treatments, including translations, of Walter Scott's Talisman in the years 1890-1920, a span of time critical to the Nahda, or "Arab Renaissance." It argues that Arab authors and...
- 3From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 48, Issue 5)48-2833 D157 2009-33153 CIP Phillips, Jonathan. Holy warriors: a modern history of the Crusades. Random House, 2010 (c2009). 434p bibl index ISBN 9781400065806, $30.00 Although this overview of the concept...
- 4From:HTS Teologiese Studies (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe notion and consequences of the Crusades are still influencing the modern Christian (and Muslim) pattern of thinking. These 'holy wars', fought by members of the Roman Catholic Church, mostly against infidels...
- 5From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 26, Issue 4)"The Real History of the Crusades" by Thomas F Madden, in Crisis Magazine (Apr. 2002), 1814 N St., N W., Washington, DC 20036 Thanks to Osama bin Laden, the Crusades have been getting a lot of bad press lately. The...
- 6From:The Historian (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land. By Thomas Asbridge. (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2010. Pp. xi, 767. $34.99.) The general reader, wishing to purchase a general account of the...
- 7From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 116, Issue 467) Peer-ReviewedHISTORIANS tracing the demise of the `Angevin empire' have traditionally focused on the reign of King John for explanations, placing the twin disasters of the loss of Normandy in 1204 and the restrictions on Angevin...
- 8From:Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper analyzes the narrative strategies that shape Maalouf's rewriting of the history of the Crusades, examines why considerations of the problems inherent to the historiographical act are relegated to the...
- 9From:Acta Historica Tallinnensia (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article discusses the use of the cult of the Holy King in the context of the Baltic Crusades at the end of the 12th century and in the early 13th century. The analysis is based on the account of the miracle of St...
- 10From:History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Cathars in History and Popular Culture(*) Catharism, or Albigensianism, was a dualist religion which probably originated in the Balkans before appearing in Languedoc, southwestern France, in the first half of the...
- 11From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public LifeDEUS LO VOLT! CHRONICLE OF THE CRUSADES. By EVAN S. CONNELL. Counterpoint. 463 pp. $28 cloth, $16 paper. In 1095, Urban II called for the first crusade to reclaim the Holy Land and the people responded, Deus lo...
- 12From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThis paper offers a discussion about historical facts and ideological causes and consequences of Reconquista and the Crusades, religious wars sanctioned and promoted by the Roman Catholic Church in Medieval Europe, and...
- 13From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 48, Issue 4)48-2220 D157 MARC Asbridge, Thomas. The Crusades: the authoritative history of the war for the Holy Land. Ecco, 2010. 767p bibl index ISBN 9780060787288, $34.99 Despite the hyperbole of the subtitle, this is...
- 14From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 116, Issue 469) Peer-ReviewedIT is for his occupation of the see of Narbonne that Archbishop Berenguer (1191-1211) is best known to historians. Narbonne in the twelfth century was one of the richest cities in Languedoc, and was the seat of an...
- 15From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public LifeOn July 15, 1999, the nine-hundredth anniversary of the fall of Jerusalem to the crusaders, a party of Christians paraded round the city walls to publicize a personal apology on behalf of their religion to Muslims. They...
- 16From:The Historian (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCunning is better than force King James the Conqueror Good sense is better than courage Muhyi al-Din Ibn `Abd al-Zahir An army of pacts, truces, and alliances defined the relationships between Muslim and...
- 17From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 115, Issue 464) Peer-ReviewedThomas F. Madden's A Concise History of the Crusades (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999: pp. xi+247. $22.95; pb. $12.95) is, as its title may suggest, a textbook aimed at undergraduates. It is pitched at about the...
- 18From:The Historian (Vol. 65, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIN JUNE 1212, crusading forces commanded by Simon de Montfort had bogged down in a protracted siege before the castle and town of Penne d'Agenais in what is now southern France. Penne had been built under the auspices...
- 19From:Journal of Romance Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe presence of a lighthouse at the northern entrance of the Strait of Messina between Calabria and Sicily led medieval writers, later historians and lexicographers, and modern editors to confuse its original Norman...
- 20From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 113, Issue 452) Peer-ReviewedIt is no easy task to produce a one-volume history of a two-hundred-year-long historical phenomenon of considerable singularity and complexity, especially when the subject is peculiarly productive historiographically....