Tolerance and intolerance : social conflict in the age of the Crusades

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Tolerance and intolerance : social conflict in the age of the Crusades

edited by Michael Gervers and James M. Powell

Syracuse University Press, 2001

1st ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • - "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 Crusading in Medieval Iberia," James Brodman
  • - "Toleration Denied: Armenia between East and West in the Era of the Crusades," James D. Ryan
  • - "Crusading for the Messiah: Jews as Instruments of Christian Anti-Islamic Holy War," Adam Knobler
  • - "Tolerance and Intolerance in the Medieval Canon Lawyers," James Muldoon
  • - "William of Tyre, the Muslim Enemy, and the Problem of Tolerance," Rainer C. Schwinges

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