The Invention of the Crusades - Softcover

Tyerman, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333669029 ISBN 13: 9780333669020

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN is Lecturer in Medieval History at Hertford College, Oxford, and Head of History at Harrow School.

Review:

'The Invention of the Crusades is a stimulating and provocative book, with a useful survey of how the Crusades have been regarded from the eleventh century to the present day.' - Alastair Hamilton, The Heythrop Journal 'This is a stimulating and impressive book that anyone involved in the study and writing of history should read.' - K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, English Historical Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0333669029
• ISBN 13: 9780333669020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184