Noble Ideals And Bloody Realities: Warfare in the Middle Ages (History of Warfare, 37) - Hardcover

9789004150249: Noble Ideals And Bloody Realities: Warfare in the Middle Ages (History of Warfare, 37)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004150242 ISBN 13: 9789004150249

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2006

This collection of articles offers new insights into warfare and its impact on medieval society, analyzing social and economic issues, military strategy, technology, medical developments, ideology and rhetoric, and addressing warfare in Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world.

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About the Author

Niall G.F. Christie, Ph.D. (1999) in medieval Islamic history, University of St Andrews, teaches religious studies and history at the University of British Columbia and Corpus Christi College in Vancouver, Canada. He is a specialist in the crusades.

Maya Yazigi, Ph.D. (2001) in Islamic Studies, University of California – Los Angeles, is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She is a specialist in early Islamic history.

Review

"sheds important light on the reality behind the various medieval accounts of warfare/crusades and forces us to reexamine many of our assumptions about war in the Middle Ages, and how people involved in it were treated. .. [A] fascinating collection."
Albrecht Classen in Sixteenth Century Journal, XXXVIII/4 (2007), 1089-1091

"These are essays worth reading and absorbing. Some are stimulating as well as informative. ... the collective volume has a place in any bibliography on medieval and Crusading warfare.... It belongs in libraries on the history of warfare, medieval military history, medieval history, Byzantium, medieval Islam, and the medieval eastern Mediterranean."
Walter E. Kaegi in Mamluk Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 2007, 197-199.

"this volume contains a good mix of papers......will mostly appeal to historians focusing on the Middle East ... I would recommend Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities for any library shelf."
Peter Konieczny, in H-War (March, 2007)

"The essays offer exciting points of departure for future research, particularly for comparative approaches"
William Caferro in Speculum, 82/3 (2007), 693-694