The medieval crusade
By: edited by Susan J. Ridyard ; with an introduction by Jonathan Phillips.
Contributors: Ridyard, Susan J. 1957-; Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium (28th : 2001 : University of the South)
Series: Sewanee medieval studies ;; 15; Sewanee mediaeval studies ;; v. 15.
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Crusades.
Description: "The papers in this volume address major themes in recent scholarship on the medieval crusade and its religious, political and cultural context. Together these papers by leading scholars will be essential reading for all serious students of the medieval crusade."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Selected papers from the 28th annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium held April 6-7, 2001, at the University of the South.
Table of contents: title: The crusades : sources, impact, and context / Jonathan Phillips; title: Latin and Hebrew crusade chronicles : some shared themes / Robert Chazan; title: Crusading in Christian-Jewish polemics / Robert Chazan; title: How, or how much, to reevaluate Peter the Hermit / Jay Rubenstein; title: Christian authority in the Latin east : Edessa in crusader history / Christopher MacEvitt; title: Venice, the papacy, and the crusades before 1204 / Thomas F. Madden; title: Innocent III, the Fourth Crusade, and the coming apocalypse / Alfred J. Andrea; title: Were the Templars guilty? / Jonathan Riley-Smith; title: The structures of the Orders of the Temple and the Hospital in c. 1291 / Jonathan Riley-Smith; title: The c-revisions and the crusades in Piers Plowman / William E. Rogers; title: The failure of Philip the Good to fulfill his crusade promise of 1454 / Kelly DeVries.