| The Invention of the Crusades 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Tyerman, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333669029 ISBN-13: 9780333669020 Publisher: Red Globe Press OUR PRICE: $47.47 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Religion | Christianity - General - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 909 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.53 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |