Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades (Medieval Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815628692 ISBN 13: 9780815628699

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This title covers diverse topics such as the treatment of prisoners, the ransom of captives, and the problems faced by many groups during the period of the crusades. One of the central issues revolves around the attitudes of the participants. There were significant differences among Latin and Eastern Christians, between Christians and Muslims, and Christians, Muslims and Jews. But, too great an emphasis on the religious roots of intolerance has oversimplified the ways in which ideas of tolerance developed. What is important in these essays is an effort to explore these relationships in their complexity in order to penetrate those generalizations that have often distorted more than enlightened. Tolerance and intolerance therefore are terms that can obscure as much as enlighten.

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About the Author

Michael Gervers is professor of history at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. and the author of The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England.

James M. Powell is professor emeritus, Department of History, Syrancuse University. He has written several books including Anatomy of a Crusade, Muslims under Latin Rule, and Medieval Studies: An Introduction, Second Edition, also published by Syracuse University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815628692
• ISBN 13: 9780815628699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 191
• Editor: Gervers Michael, Powell James M.