Encounter Between Enemies: Captivity and Ransom in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-11706-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples

This fascinating study examines the customs, legal codes, and socioeconomic mechanisms that evolved from the initial Christian-Muslim encounter on Crusader battlefields. It pinpoints changes in European mentality, and conduct of war, tracing acculturation processes in Frankish society in the Levant. These changes emerged from the need to redeem captives, making payment of ransom to the infidel conceivable and acceptable. The book pays special attention to the story of the vanquished, to the situation of women, to the behavior of the Military Orders toward captives, and to the image of the captive in Crusader literature, in the context of making war and peace.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedman, Yvonne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables and Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The First Encounters – Crusaders Face Captivity
2. Prisoners of War in the Levant
3. The Western Legacy
4. Later Encounters
5. Life in Captivity
6. The Way out of Captivity
7. Weak and Violated? The Experience of Women
8. Charity and Prestige – The Military Orders and the Ransom of Captives
9. Shameful Failure or Romantic Hero – Images of Captivity
10. Ransom on Both Sides of the Mediterranean

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yvonne Friedman, Ph.D. (1980) in History is Senior lecturer in the Martin Szusz Department of Land of Israel Studies and the Department of History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her publications include a book on medieval Christian Jewish Polemics (Peter the Venerable's Tractatus adversus iudaeos, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio mediaevalis vol. 58) and articles on medieval pilgrimage and the ransom of captives.