Tolerance and Intolerance

Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8156-2869-9
Verlag: Syracuse University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

This title covers diverse topics such as the treatment of prisoners, the ransom of captives, and the problems faced by many groups during the period of the crusades. One of the central issues revolves around the attitudes of the participants. There were significant differences among Latin and Eastern Christians, between Christians and Muslims, and Christians, Muslims and Jews. But, too great an emphasis on the religious roots of intolerance has oversimplified the ways in which ideas of tolerance developed. What is important in these essays is an effort to explore these relationships in their complexity in order to penetrate those generalizations that have often distorted more than enlightened. Tolerance and intolerance therefore are terms that can obscure as much as enlighten.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gervers, Michael

Powell, James M

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- ""Gender Bias and Religious Intolerance in Accounts of the 'Massacres' of the First Crusade,"" David Hay; - ""Prisoners of War During the Fatimid-Ayyubid Wars with the Crusaders,"" Yaacov Lev; - ""The Rhetoric of Ransoming: A Contribution to the Debate over

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Gervers is professor of history at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. and the author of The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England. James M. Powell is professor emeritus, Department of History, Syrancuse University. He has written several books including Anatomy of a Crusade, Muslims under Latin Rule, and Medieval Studies: An Introduction, Second Edition, also published by Syracuse University Press.