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Writing the Early Crusades

By Marcus Bull

Writing the Early Crusades

By Marcus Bull

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The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, but scholarly understanding of these texts is still far from satisfactory. The essays collected here tackles the disjuncture between the study of the crusades and the study of medieval history-writing, setting the agenda for future research into historical narratives about or inspired by crusading. The basic premise that informs all the papers is that narrative accounts of crusades and analogous texts should not be primarily understood as repositories of data that contribute to a reconstruction of events, but as cultural artefacts that can be interrogated from a wide range of theoretical, methodological and thematic perspectives.
Product details
Number of Pages:
186
Release Date:
2014-06-19
Publication Date:
2014-06-19
Publisher:
Boydell Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843839202
ISBN13:
9781843839200
Weight:
449 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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