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| Crusades-Encyclopedia | |||||||||||||
| Myths, Misunderstandings, and Controversies | |||||||||||||
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| Popular perceptions of an event (or events) are often quite different from scholarly perceptions. The Crusades are no different in that popular understandings of the Crusades are generally uninformed by the most recent scholarship. On many issues, respected Crusades historians, such as Jonathan Riley-Smith and Thomas Madden, have effectively disproven or cast considerable suspicion on common assumptions about the Crusades. This page provides numerous articles that reflect the divergence between scholarly and popular understandings of the Crusades. | |||||||||||||
| Thomas Madden Crusades Myths. Catholic Dossier Jan-Feb. 2002 | |||||||||||||
| Thomas Madden: Crusades of History and Politics Hudson Institute | |||||||||||||
| Thomas Madden: Crusades Myths Catholic Dossier- February, 2002 | |||||||||||||
| Thomas Madden: Crusades Propaganda: The Abuse of Christianity's Holy Wars National Review | |||||||||||||
| Thomas Madden The Crusades in the Checkout Aisle Crisis Magazine E-Letter | |||||||||||||
| Jonathan Riley-Smith: Rethinking the Crusades First Things- March 2000 with later correspondence | |||||||||||||
| Jonathan Riley-Smith Religious Warriors: Reinterpreting the Crusades from The Economist, Dec. 1995 | |||||||||||||
| Jonathan Riley-Smith Jihad Crusaders: What an Osama Bin Laden Means by "crusade" National Review | |||||||||||||
| Jonathan Riley-Smith Truth is the First Victim [Review of Kingdom of Heaven] U.K.Times Online May 5, 2005 | |||||||||||||
| William Urban: Rethinking the Crusades Perspectives-American Historical Association October, 1998. | |||||||||||||
| Robert P. Lockwood: The Battle Over the Crusades- Catholic League- July 2001 | |||||||||||||
| Vincent Ryan: Not Conspiracies But Mistakes Catholic World News-February, 2005 | |||||||||||||
| Zenit News Service: The Crusades: Separating Myth from Reality- Reprinted in A.D. 2000: The Journal of Religious Opinion | |||||||||||||
| Dr. Sean McGlynn The Myths of Medieval Warfare from History Today-Reprinted on DeReMilitari.Org | |||||||||||||
| Dr. Edward Peters Modern Misuse of "Crusade" University of Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||
| Dr. Edward Peters Have Muslims in the Middle East Really Remembered the Pain of the Crusades for a Thousand Years? History News Network | |||||||||||||
| Dr. Edward Peters The Firanj are Coming --Again Foreign Policy Research Institute | |||||||||||||
| Dr. Timothy Furnish How the Media Misconstrue Jihad and the Crusades History News Network | |||||||||||||
| Jessalynn Byrd The Crusades Eschatological Lemmings, Younger Sons, Papal Hegemony and Colonialism ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies | |||||||||||||
| Helen Nicholson Serious Violence: Church justification for violence in the Middle Ages. Helen Nicholson's Page | |||||||||||||
| Helen Nicholson FAQ Page- Very useful short answers to a number of questions about crusades controversies. | |||||||||||||
| Related Links | |||||||||||||
| Kingdom of Heaven [The Film]- Crusades-Encyclopedia | |||||||||||||
| Apology for the Crusades- Crusades-Encyclopedia | |||||||||||||