The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World

edited by Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh


Preface


I Introduction

Giles Constable
The Historiography of the Crusades

II Crusades and Holy War

Roy Parviz Mottahedeh and Ridwan al-Sayyid
The Idea of the Jihad in Islam before the Crusades

George T.Dennis
Defenders of the Christian People:Holy War in Byzantium

III Approaches and Attitudes

M.C.Lyons
The Land of War:Europe in the Arab Hero Cycles

Nadia Maria El-Cheikh
Byzantium through the Islamic Prism from the Twelfth to the Thirteenth Century

Robert W.Thomson
The Crusaders through Armenian Eyes

Alexander Kazhdan Ý
Latins and Franks in Byzantium:Perception and Reality from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Century

Elizabeth Jeffreys and Michael Jeffreys
The "Wild Beast from the West ":Immediate Literary Reactions in Byzantium to the Second Crusade

Tia M.Kolbaba
Byzantine Perceptions of Latin Religious "Errors ":Themes and Changes from 850 to 1350

IV The Crusades and the Economy of the Eastern Mediterranean

Olivia Remie Constable
Funduq,Fondaco,and Khan in the Wake of Christian Commerce and Crusade

Angeliki E.Laiou,with an Appendix by Cécile Morrisson
Byzantine Trade with Christians and Muslims and the Crusades

David Jacoby
Changing Economic Patterns in Latin Romania:The Impact of the West

V Art and Architecture

Oleg Grabar
The Crusades and the Development of Islamic Art

Charalambos Bouras
The Impact of Frankish Architecture on Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Architecture

Sharon E.J.Gerstel
Art and Identity in the Medieval Morea

List of Abbreviations

Index