Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity

by Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager

Book Overview

Few events in European history generated more historical, artistic, and literary responses than the conquest of Jerusalem by the armies of the First Crusade in 1099. This epic military and religious expedition, and the many that followed it, became part of the collective memory of communities in Europe, Byzantium, North Africa, and the Near East. Remembering the Crusades examines the ways in which those memories were negotiated, transmitted,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421404257
• ISBN13: 9781421404257
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"