Reimagined History: Trauma as Provocation for the First Crusade
Journal: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University)
Year: 2019

The violence of the Crusades was instigated in part by provocative statements made by political and religious leaders who tapped into shared memories of traumatic warfare between Muslims, Jews, and Christians. The different recollections of wrongdoing by these large, religious, ethnic groups were fuel for renewing violence. As \neach of these faith traditions evolved, they brought with them stories of oppression and violence, often contained in holy scripture. Jews heard ancient accounts of ensl