The Crusade. A Shared History.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 32669 |
| Format | |
| Détails | 442 p. paperback |
| Publication | Cairo, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
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What is the crusade? How can we take into account all the perspectives that, for more than a millennium, have been directed at a phenomenon that still haunts international relations today? Abbès Zouache draws on a variety of sources, Latin, Arabic, Armenian, and Greek, which he treats without any prior attempt to prioritize them, and multiplies the encounters between Arab and European or American historiographies that generally ignore each other. This approach allows him to propose a new history of the crusade, which he shows to be an unparalleled memorial phenomenon that, since Pope Urban II's appeal to Clermont, has conveyed major ideological and political issues.
What is the crusade? How can we take into account all the perspectives that, for more than a millennium, have been directed at a phenomenon that still haunts international relations today? Abbès Zouache draws on a variety of sources, Latin, Arabic, Armenian, and Greek, which he treats without any prior attempt to prioritize them, and multiplies the encounters between Arab and European or American historiographies that generally ignore each other. This approach allows him to propose a new history of the crusade, which he shows to be an unparalleled memorial phenomenon that, since Pope Urban II's appeal to Clermont, has conveyed major ideological and political issues.