The Crusades and the Christian World of the East
Rough Tolerance
Christopher MacEvitt
2007 | 280 pages | Cloth $49.95 | Paper $22.50
History | Religion
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Table of Contents
Note on Transliteration and Names
Map
Introduction
The Twelfth-Century Middle East
Historiography of the Crusades
Rough Tolerance: A New Model of Religious Interaction
1 Satan Unleashed: The Christian Levant in the Eleventh Century
A Brief History of the Christian East
Contact and Knowledge Between Eastern and Western Christians
2 Close Encounters of the Ambiguous Kind: When Crusaders and Locals Meet
Responses to the First Crusade
The Franks in Edessa
Armenian Resistance
3 Images of Authority in Edessa, 1100-1150
Frankish Authority
Armenian Authority: A Response to the Franks
Edessa Under Joscelin I
Edessa and the Frankish East
4 Rough Tolerance and Ecclesiastical Ignorance
Local Christians from a Latin Perspective
Local Priests and Patriarchs in the Frankish Levant
Architecture and Liturgy
Pilgrimage
5 The Legal and Social Status of Local Inhabitants in the Frankish Levant
Historiography
The Peasantry
Local Rural Landowners and Administrators
6 The Price of Unity: Ecumenical Negotiations and the End of Rough Tolerance
Manuel I Komnenos and the Mediterranean World
Ecumenical Dialogue with the Armenian Church
Jacobite Patriarch Michael and the Quest for Legitimacy
Cultural Consequences of Ecumenical Negotiation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments