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East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean I: Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest Until the End of the Crusader Principality

East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean I: Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest Until the End of the Crusader Principality

Metcalf, M.
Ciggaar, K.

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismAncient History General

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ISBN10: 9042917350
ISBN13: 9789042917354
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Aug 21 2006
Pages: 378
Weight: 2.25
Height: 0.96 Width: 8.24 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
Claude Cahen's book on Crusader Antioch cast a long shadow. His thorough monograph seemingly leaves little more to be said. Decades may pass before scholars return to the topic. The long shadow fell even on the Wisconsin History of the Crusades which still seeks, essentially, to stich the written sources together into traditional narrative history, only to do it better. But topics such as architecture, or coins are optional extras and not much integrated into the whole picture. A thorough analysis of political and military developments is indeed the essential groundwork of most medieval history. But high politics was not the whole of life; and charters and texts are not the only witnesses to that life. Social and economic life has its own momentum and its own continuity. Its moral and spiritual aspects deserve historical study, and impose new historical disciplines. Crusades studies have become more interdisciplinary, and less monolithic. That new style of enquiry is fully reflected in the range and variety of the papers, tightly focussed on Antioch, printed in this volume.

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