The Debate on the Crusades, 1099-2010.

Cover -- Contents -- General editor's foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 'The greatest event since the Resurrection': some medieval views of the crusades -- 2 'The rendez vous of cracked brains'? Reformation, revision, texts and nations 1500-1700 -- 3 Reason, faith and progress: a disputed Enlightenment -- 4 Empathy and materialism: keeping the crusades up to date -- 5 Scholarship, politics and the 'golden age' of research -- 6 The end of colonial consensus -- 7 Erdmann, Runciman and the end of tradition? -- 8 Definitions and directions -- Epilogue -- Selective guide to further reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars of the cross themselves.

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