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The debate on the Crusades /
"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 prese...
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Manchester ;
Manchester University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Issues in historiography
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| Online Access: | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=022642417&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Medieval views on the Crusades
- Reformation, revision, texts and nations 1500-1700
- Reason, faith and progress: a contested Enlightenment
- Empathy and materialism: keeping the crusade up to date
- Scholarship, politics and the Golden Age of research
- The end of colonial consensus
- Erdmann and Runciman and the end of tradition
- Definitions and directions
- Epilogue.