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"The Long Room Hub."

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Contributors include Lean Ni Chleirigh, Susan B. Edgington, John France, Yehoshua Frenkel, Yvonne Friedman. Bernard Hamilton, Natasha Hodgson, Sini Kangas, Jurgen Kruger, Alan V. Murray Chris Wright. --Book Jacket.

Lackling such questions as whether medicinal and architectural innovations came to Europe as a direct result of the crusades, and why and how peace treaties and intermarriages were formed between the different cultures, a distinguished group of contributors reveals how the Iloly Wars led on the one hand to a reinforcement of the beliefs and identities of each side, but on the other to a growing level of cultural exchange and interaction. This volume breaks new ground in exploring not only the conflict between the Christian and the Muslim worlds, but the impact of this conflict on the cultural evolution of European and Near Eastern thought and practices. Utilising the latest scholarship and original studies of the sources, this survey sheds new light on the cultural realities of East - West relations and marks a new departure for studies of the crusades.

Introduction / Conor Kostick

Warfare in the Mediterranean region in the age of the crusades, 1095-1291: a clash of contrasts / John France

Muslim responses to the Frankish dominion in the Near East, 1098-1291 / Yehoshua Frenkel

On the margins of Christendom : the impact of the crusades on Byzantium / Chris Wright

Conflict and cohabitation : marriage and diplomacy between Latins and Cilician Armenians, c.1097-1253 / Natasha Hodgson

National identity, language and conflict in the crusades to the Holy Land, 1096-1192 / Alan V. Murray

Inimicus Dei et sanctae Christianitatis? Saracens and their Prophet in twelfth-century crusade propaganda and western travesties of Muhammad's life / Sini Kangas

The impact of the First Crusade on Western opinion towards the Byzantine Empire : the Dei Gesta per Francos of Guibert of Nogent and the Historia Hierosolymitana of Fulcher of Chartres / Léan Ní Chléirigh

Oriental and occidental medicine in the crusader states / Susan B. Edginton

Architecture of the crusaders in the Holy Land : the first European colonial architecture? / Jürgen Krüger

Peacemaking : perceptions and practices in the medieval Latin East / Yvonne Friedman

Afterword / Bernard Hamilton.

Christianity and other religions > Islam > History > To 1500.

Civilization, Western > Islamic influences.

Crusades > Influence.

Islam > Relations > Christianity > History > To 1500.

Islamic civilization > Western influences.

Middle East > Relations > Western countries.

Western countries > Relations > Middle East.