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Articles by Christopher Tyerman
Richard J. Walsh, ‘Charles the Bold and the Crusade: Politics and Propaganda’: Fifty Years On
ABSTRACT This article uses an examination of Richard Walsh’s 1977 study of Charles the Bold duke of Burgundy and the crusade as a springboard for viewing the development and growth of crusade studies over last 50 years. It maps debates over definitions and the extension of research beyond traditional chronological, geographic, thematic and theoretical perimeters. A brief survey of publications in the Journal of Medieval History itself is employed to illustrate these developments.
The Best Books on the Crusades
Before we get into the books that you’ve selected, could you explain what the Crusades were—intellectually/socially and in terms of war? Where did the idea of fighting for the God of love come from? Defining the Crusades is a very difficult thing to do. I’ve been at a conference where a whole roomful of distinguished medievalists tried to come up with a working definition that everyone could accept. After several futile hours, we gave up in disorder.
‘The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin’ Review: A Portrait of a Champion
Until the 21st century, Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (Righteous of the Faith; Joseph, son of Ayyub), known in Europe as Saladin, was probably the most famous Muslim in Western culture after the Prophet Muhammad himself. The historical reputation of Saladin (1137-93) rests on a few celebrated achievements, each recounted and analyzed in Jonathan Phillips’s learned and engaging biography.
A modern guide to crusading (audio article)
Domenico Paradisi, Crusaders Reach Jerusalem (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), ca. 1689–93, Wool, silk tapestry, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Domenico Paradisi, Crusaders Reach Jerusalem (from a set of Scenes from Gerusalemme Liberata), ca. 1689–93, Wool, silk tapestry, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Crusaders and Historians | Thomas F. Madden
The Crusades have been a topic of intense scholarly investigation for the last forty years. Some of the best historians in the world have focused their efforts on learning how the Crusade movement, unique in human history, could have developed and flourished in medieval Europe. In thousands of journal articles and scholarly monographs Christianity’s holy wars have been probed, analyzed, and debated. Much still remains to be done, but the fruits of all of this research cannot be denied.
Review: Showdown in the Levant
By Feb. 21, 2018 6:27 pm ET Nine hundred years ago, on June 28, 1119, near the northwestern Syrian town of Sarmada, an army led by European settlers was annihilated by a superior force of Turks led by Ilghazi, ruler of Aleppo.
God's War: A New History of the Crusades: Christopher Tyerman: 9780674030701: Books - Amazon.ca
Starred Review. This is likely to replace Steven Runciman's 50-year-old History of the Crusades as the standard work. Tyerman (England and the Crusades), lecturer in medieval history at Oxford University, demolishes our simplistic misconceptions about that series of ferocious campaigns in the Middle East, Muslim Spain and the pagan Baltic between 1096 and 1500.
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