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The Debate on the Crusades, 1099-2010.

David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that "the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind." This is the first book length study of how succeeding generations from the First Crusade in 1099 to the present day...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tyerman, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Colección:Issues in Historiography MUP.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "The greatest event since the Resurrection" : some medieval views on the Crusades
  • "The rendez vous of cracked brains"? : Reformation, revision, texts and nations 1500-1700
  • Reason, faith and progress : a disputed Enlightenment
  • Empathy and materialism : keeping the Crusades up to date
  • Scholarship, politics and the "golden age" of research
  • The end of colonial consensus
  • Erdmann, Runciman and the end of tradition?
  • Definitions and directions
  • Epilogue.