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Christopher Macevitt - The Crusades and the Christian World of the East. Rough Tolerance.  - 9780812240504 - V9780812240504
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The Crusades and the Christian World of the East. Rough Tolerance.

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Description for The Crusades and the Christian World of the East. Rough Tolerance. Hardback. In The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, Christopher MacEvitt marshals an impressive array of literary, legal, artistic, and archeological evidence to demonstrate how crusader ideology and religious difference gave rise to a mode of coexistence he calls "rough tolerance." Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HRAM9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 570.

In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Muslims and Jews but also local Christians, whose culture and traditions were a world apart from their own. The crusader-occupied swaths of Syria and Palestine were home to many separate Christian communities: Greek and Syrian Orthodox, Armenians, and other sects with sharp doctrinal differences. How did these disparate groups live together under Frankish rule?
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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812240504
SKU
V9780812240504
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Ref
99-15

About Christopher Macevitt
Christopher MacEvitt teaches religion at Dartmouth College.

Reviews for The Crusades and the Christian World of the East. Rough Tolerance.
"A first-rate piece of scholarship that will have a major impact on the field of crusade studies and medieval history in general. . . . A must for all historians of the Latin East and those interested in relations between the churches."
Jonathan Riley-Smith, author of The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
"A superb contribution to ... Read more

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