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The Invention of the Crusades

The Invention of the Crusades

by Christopher Tyerman (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $41.42
Synopsis

What were the 'Crusades'? Were the great Christian expeditions to invade the Holy Land in fact 'Crusades' at all? In this radical and compelling new treatment, Christopher Tyerman questions the very nature of our belief in the Crusades, showing how historians writing more than a century after the First Crusade retrospectively invented the idea of the 'Crusade'. Using these much later sources, all subsequent historians up to the present day have fallen into the same trap of following propaganda from a much later period to explain events that were understood quite differently by contemporaries.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 184
 Edition: 1998
 Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 08 Jun 1998
ISBN 10: 0333669029
ISBN 13: 9780333669020
Book Overview: 'The Invention of the Crusades is a stimulating and provocative book, with a useful survey of how the Crusades have been regarded from the eleventh century to the present day.' - Alastair Hamilton, The Heythrop Journal 'This is a stimulating and impressive book that anyone involved in the study and writing of history should read.' - K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, English Historical Review

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'The Invention of the Crusades is a stimulating and provocative book, with a useful survey of how the Crusades have been regarded from the eleventh century to the present day.' - Alastair Hamilton, The Heythrop Journal 'This is a stimulating and impressive book that anyone involved in the study and writing of history should read.' - K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, English Historical Review
Author Bio
CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN is Lecturer in Medieval History at Hertford College, Oxford, and Head of History at Harrow School.