The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance

In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the...
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Author: Christopher Macevitt
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The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance by Macevitt, Christopher

The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance

¥7,706

The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance

¥7,706
Author: Christopher Macevitt
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Muslims and Jews but also local Christians, whose culture and traditions were a world apart from their own. The crusader-occupied swaths of Syria and Palestine were home to many separate Christian communities: Greek and Syrian Orthodox, Armenians, and other sects with sharp doctrinal differences. How did these disparate groups live together under Frankish rule?

In The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, Christopher MacEvitt marshals an impressive array of literary, legal, artistic, and archeological evidence to demonstrate how crusader ideology and religious difference gave rise to a mode of coexistence he calls rough tolerance. The twelfth-century Frankish rulers of the Levant and their Christian subjects were separated by language, religious practices, and beliefs. Yet western Christians showed little interest in such differences. Franks intermarried with local Christians and shared shrines and churches, but they did not hesitate to use military force against Christian communities. Rough tolerance was unlike other medieval modes of dealing with religious difference, and MacEvitt illuminates the factors that led to this striking divergence.

It is commonplace to discuss the diversity of the Middle East in terms of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, MacEvitt writes, yet even this simplifies its religious complexity. While most crusade history has focused on Christian-Muslim encounters, MacEvitt offers an often surprising account by examining the intersection of the Middle Eastern and Frankish Christian worlds during the century of the First Crusade.

Author: Christopher Macevitt
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 09/10/2009
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780812220834

About the Author
Christopher MacEvitt teaches religion at Dartmouth College.

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