The Crusades and the Near East: cultural histories

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The crusades are often seen as epitomising a period when hostility between Christian West and the Muslim Near East reached an all time high. As this edited volume reveals, however, the era was one which saw both conflict and cohabitation. Tackling 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, this distinguished group of contributors reveal how the Holy Wars led on the one hand to a reinforcement of the beliefs and identiti. 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 -- Afterward / Bernard Hamilton.