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Rethinking the Crusades.
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On July 15, 1999, the nine-hundredth anniversary of the fall of Jerusalem to the crusaders, a party of Christians paraded round the city walls to publicize a personal apology on behalf of their religion to Muslims. They wanted to make a conciliatory gesture, on the one hand, and on the other to express contrition for wars they believe should be included in the category of events Pope John Paul II calls departures from the spirit of Christ and his gospel. To accept blame humbly when ...
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Rethinking the Crusades.
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; On July 15, 1999, the nine-hundredth anniversary of the fall of Jerusalem to the crusaders, a party of Christians paraded round the city walls to publicize a personal apology on behalf of their religion to Muslims. They wanted to make a conciliatory gesture, on the one hand, and on the other to
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The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives.
Church History
; ... illustrations--either drawn figures, photographic plates, or maps. Seventeen co]or plates of both art and buildings enhance the ... illustrations alone are worth the price of the book. And the maps are excellent. Most of all Hillenbrand has compiled a marvelous ...
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Michael Walzer on Just War Theory's "Critical Edge": More Like a Spoon Than a Knife
The Independent Review
; In Arguing about War (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004), Michael Walzer presents a collection of essays treating topics that have been widely discussed in the post-9/11 period. These essays, which Walzer terms "political acts," first appeared from 1981 to 2003 in venues as diverse as
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Fighting the good fight.(God's War: A New History of the Crusades)(Book review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; GOD'S WAR: A NEW HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES by CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN Belknap, 1,040 pages, $35 NOT TOO MANY years ago, single-volume histories of the Crusades were a rarity. Bookstores were crowded with volumes on the Civil War or World War II, but there was little on medieval battles fought in faraway
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Crusaders and historians.(Figthing For Christendom: Holy War And The Crusades )(The First Crusade: A New History )(The Fourth Crusade And The Sack Of Constantinople )(Book Review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; ... cheaper or more convenient transportation in other ports, there was nothing to stop them from taking advantage of it. This was bad news for the main body of the Crusade. With so many leaving from other ports, only about 12,000 showed up in Venice. That meant the ...
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Historical Dictionary of the Crusades
The Catholic Historical Review
; Historical Dictionary of the Crusades. By Corliss K. Slack. [Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest, No. 25.] (Lanham, Maryland, and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press. 2003. Pp. xxiv, 273. $65.00.) This volume joins a crowded field of new reference books on the crusades, most
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The Perfectly Dreadful Crusades
Solares Hill
; ... Lands) to unknown territories east of what was called the Great Sea, which is our Mediterranean. This was before the time of maps, so they took the Bible literally and got hopelessly lost. The first of the six Crusades was a particular disaster, thousands ...
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FIGHTING FOR CHRISTENDOM: HOLY WAR AND THE CRUSADES
The Spectator
; Mixed mediaeval motives FIGHTING FOR CHRISTENDOM: HOLY WAR AND THE CRUSADES by Christopher Tyerman OUP, 12.99, pp. 216, ISBN 0192803255 * 11.99 (plus 2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 The crusades have had a bad press lately, for reasons which are not far to seek. They were characterised by the three
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A Concise History of the Crusades.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Church History
; By Thomas F. Madden. Critical Issues in History, 105. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. xii + 247 pp. $22.95 cloth; $16.95 paper. The conciseness of Thomas Madden's account of the crusades presents both advantages and drawbacks. The book is fundamentally a brief textbook, suitable for
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TIMELY LECTURE COVERS "JUST WAR THEORY'.(Neighbors Oswego)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; A lecture on human ideals begins at 2:15 p.m. Oct. 5 in the lower lobby of Sheldon Hall at the State University College at Oswego. Just War Theory in the 21st Century will be presented by Steven P. Lee of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The lecture is free and open to the public. For
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