An analysis of Jonathan Riley-Smith's the First Crusade and the idea of crusading
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An analysis of Jonathan Riley-Smith's the First Crusade and the idea of crusading
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Routledge, c2017
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A Macat analysis of Jonathan Riley-Smith's the First Crusade and the idea of crusading
A Macat analysis : Jonathan Riley-Smith's the First Crusade and the idea of crusading
The First Crusade and the idea of crusading
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Description
Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their own preconceptions than has Jonathan Riley-Smith's revisionist account of the motives of the first crusaders.
Riley-Smith's thesis - based on extensive original research and firmly rooted in his refusal to uncritically accept the evidence or reasoning of earlier historians - is that the majority of the men who travelled to the east on crusade in the years 1098-1100 were primarily motivated by faith. This finding, which ran directly counter to at least four centuries of consensus that other motives, not least greed for land, were more important, has helped to stimulate exciting reappraisals of the whole crusading movement. Riley-Smith backed it up with forensic examination of the key crusader-inspiring speech delivered by Pope Urban II, looking to clarify the meanings of five competing contemporary accounts in order to understand how an initially simple, and rather confused, appeal for help became a sophisticated rationale for the concept of 'just war.'
Table of Contents
Ways in to the Text Who was Jonathan Riley-Smith? What does The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading Say? Why does The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited
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