Susanna A Throop
Biographic Data
| ID | 5693340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanna A Throop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanna A |
| FAMILY NAME | Throop |
| SIGNATURE | THROOP S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ursinus College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
J ay R ubenstein . Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
What should we do when the world is catastrophically failing to live up to expectations? In his latest monograph, Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History, Jay Rubenstein suggests that faced with inexplicable crises, a number of twelfth-century Latin Christians chose to reconsider history, above all the place of their present moment within a much grander narrative of Christian salvation. Nebuchadnezzar’s …
The Crusades and Visual Culture
Mirrored images
This lavish mid-fourteenth-century Parisian illuminated manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 352) combines a description of the Holy Land with an abridged version of the history and continuations of William of Tyre in Old French known as the Eracles. It is both visually familiar to scholars and under-studied. Several of its Gothic panel miniatures, especially folio 62r, the conquest of Jerusalem, have been published more th…
Combat and Conversation
The crusading movement offered a large number of lay knights from Western Europe the chance to see and interact with Muslims face to face, albeit often with weapons in hand and priorities other than cultural dialogue. Multiple crusading narratives, including both the "traditional" history of Robert of Rheims and the more "literary" Historia Karoli Magni et Rotholandi, depicted religious conversations between Christian and Islamic individuals on o…
Combat and Conversation
The crusading movement offered a large number of lay knights from Western Europe the chance to see and interact with Muslims face to face, albeit often with weapons in hand and priorities other than cultural dialogue. Multiple crusading narratives, including both the "traditional" history of Robert of Rheims and the more "literary" Historia Karoli Magni et Rotholandi, depicted religious conversations between Christian and Islamic individuals on o…
Combat and Conversation
The crusading movement offered a large number of lay knights from Western Europe the chance to see and interact with Muslims face to face, albeit often with weapons in hand and priorities other than cultural dialogue. Multiple crusading narratives, including both the "traditional" history of Robert of Rheims and the more "literary" Historia Karoli Magni et Rotholandi, depicted religious conversations between Christian and Islamic individuals on o…
Mirrored images
This lavish mid-fourteenth-century Parisian illuminated manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 352) combines a description of the Holy Land with an abridged version of the history and continuations of William of Tyre in Old French known as the Eracles. It is both visually familiar to scholars and under-studied. Several of its Gothic panel miniatures, especially folio 62r, the conquest of Jerusalem, have been published more th…
The Crusades and Visual Culture
J ay R ubenstein . Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
What should we do when the world is catastrophically failing to live up to expectations? In his latest monograph, Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History, Jay Rubenstein suggests that faced with inexplicable crises, a number of twelfth-century Latin Christians chose to reconsider history, above all the place of their present moment within a much grander narrative of Christian salvation. Nebuchadnezzar’s …
Art (4 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Medieval History and Crusades (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Classics (2 works)