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The Invention of the Crusades Christopher
Tyerman
University of Toronto Press, 1998, 160pp
ISBN: 0802081851
List price: $11.99
Macmillan Press Ltd, 1998, 184pp
ISBN: 0333669029
List price: £12.99
Crusades Bookstore Review:
Deals with the discrepancies between how the crusaders viewed themselves and
how they were viewed by later commentators. Very interesting (so far!) <Review in
progress>
From the Cover:
What were the "Crusades"? Were the great Christian expeditions to
invade the Holy Land in fact "Crusades" at all? In this treatment, the author
questions the very nature of our belief in the Crusades, showing how historians writing
more than a century after the First Crusade retrospectively invented the idea of the
"Crusade". Using these much later sources, subsequent historians have employed
propaganda from a much later period to explain events that were understood quite
differently by contemporaries.
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