Overview
- Analyses the significance of the crusades launched against Christian rulers and communities during the Middle Ages
- Examines crusading against Christians across Europe, from France to Russia and from southern Italy to the Baltic
- Contextualises the role of the crusading movement within the internal development of Europe
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Crusades in Southern Europe and the Balkans
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Crusades in Northern and Central Europe
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Back Matter
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About this book
This is the first book-length study into crusading against Christians, examining this complex phenomenon from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries and across numerous regions, from France to Russia and from southern Italy to the Baltic. Whilst the crusades are an immensely popular topic, those launched against Christian rulers and communities have been comparatively overlooked in the past, with existing studies typically focusing on a particular area, period, or campaign. This volume brings together the expertise of thirteen scholars on a variety of primary and secondary sources not often accessible to Anglophone readership, as well as their knowledge of national discourses which have often shaped historiography. It aims to serve as the first port of call for anyone who wishes to approach crusades against Christians within and without the specialism of crusader studies, and to provide the basis for a thorough comparative analysis of this phenomenon, covering its variety as comprehensively as possible.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nikolaos G. Chrissis is Assistant Professor of Medieval European History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests and publications revolve around the crusades, Latin presence in Greek lands, Byzantine-Western relations, papal policy in the Levant, and generally intercultural contacts in the medieval Mediterranean. He is the author of Crusading in Frankish Greece: A Study of Byzantine-Western Relations and Attitudes, 1204-1282 (2012), and co-editor of Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 (2014) and Byzantium and the West: Perception and Reality, 11th-15th c. (2019).
Gianluca Raccagni is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests focus on political culture in the central Middle Ages, especially within Communal Italy but also its relations with the rest of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the crusades. Most recently he has been exploring contacts between the Mediterranean and the Nordic World in the eleventh century. He is author of The Lombard League (1167-1225) (2010) and of several journal articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crusading Against Christians in the Middle Ages
Editors: Mike Carr, Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Gianluca Raccagni
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47339-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47338-8Published: 28 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47341-8Due: 28 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-47339-5Published: 27 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 384
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, History of Military, History of Religion, Social History