The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9805325 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Tyerman (Manchester College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 492 |
| Pages | 829-831 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cel111 |
| OpenAlex | W2024563199 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
DESCRIBING the fauna of his adopted Palestine in the early twelfth century, the First Crusade veteran Fulcher of Chartres, chaplain to King Baldwin I of Jerusalem, noted the characteristics of the basilisk, a serpent half of whose body crawled while the other stood ‘high and erect’. John France's exhaustive new textbook puts one in mind of such a creature, painstakingly thorough detail allied to an intellectually ambitious interpretative vision. France follows the fashion for textbooks with a clear thesis, revising current ideas about the nature and context of crusading by locating the phenomenon within an account of the development of Latin, Catholic rule and identity around the periphery of what is now called Europe: Hans Mayer meets Robert Bartlett. More than an account of the crusades, this is a survey of the history of eastern and central Europe and of western European penetration of the Mediterranean and of Latin Christians in Iberia and the Baltic. Stretches of the book bear only tangential, if any, relation to crusading. Perhaps a more accurate title would have been The Expansion of Catholic Christendom and the Role of the Crusades, although that might have made the work less marketable. As a consequence, there is much here that would not normally find a place in traditional discussions of the crusades, from outline surveys of the development of political organisation in the monarchies of western Europe or the dynastic ramifications of the elective monarchies of later medieval eastern Europe to details of the rise of Muscovy, Edward I's Welsh wars, English parliamentary taxation and the kidnapping of Boniface VII at Anagni. As the book progresses, the focus subtly shifts from the early chapters that, in conventional manner, chart the establishment of the crusading tradition, to a condensed outline survey of wide aspects of European political history
Ancient history · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Identity (music · Medieval Latin · Middle Ages · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Classics · History · Law · Medieval History and Crusades · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2016 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |