The crusades and the christian world of the East
rough tolerance
- ISBN: 9780812220834
- Editorial: University Of Pennsylvania Museum
- Fecha de la edición: 2008
- Lugar de la edición: Philadelphia. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: The Middle Ages
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 272
- Idiomas: Inglés
In The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, Christopher MacEvitt marshals an impressive array of literary, legal, artistic, and archeological evidence to demonstrate how crusader ideology and religious difference gave rise to a mode of coexistence he calls "rough tolerance." The twelfth-century Frankish rulers of the Levant and their Christian subjects were separated by language, religious practices, and beliefs. Yet western Christians showed little interest in such differences. Franks intermarried with local Christians and shared shrines and churches, but they did not hesitate to use military force against Christian communities. Rough tolerance was unlike other medieval modes of dealing with religious difference, and MacEvitt illuminates the factors that led to this striking divergence. Biography: Christopher MacEvitt teaches religion at Dartmouth College.
