Bernard Hamilton - Crusaders, Cathars and the Holy Places

in the series Crusade Texts in Translation

PETER W. EDBURY

The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation

JANET SHIRLEY

The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albingensian Crusade

HELEN NICHOLSON

The Chronicle of the Third Crusade: The Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi

JANET SHIRLEY

Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century: The Rothelin Continuation of William of Tyre

and in the Collected Studies Series

PETER W. EDBURY

Kingdoms of the Crusaders: From Jerusalem to Cyprus

H.E.J. COWDREY

The Crusades and Latin Monasticism, 11th12th Centuries

ANTHONY LUTTRELL

The Hospitaller State on Rhodes and its Western Provinces, 13061462

Professor Bernard Hamilton

Bernard Hamilton

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CRUSADERS

Kings, Queens, and Regents

Medieval Women, ed. D. Baker Oxford, 1978

Die Kreuzfahrerstaaten als multikulturelle Gesellschaft, ed. HE. Mayer, Schriften des Historischen Kollegs Kolloquien 37. Munich, 1997

The Horns of Hattin. Proceedings of the Second International Congress of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, ed. B.Z. Kedar. Jerusalem, 1992

Crusade and Settlement, ed. P. W. Edbury. Cardiff, 1985

Kathegetria. Essays Presented to Joan Hussey for her 80th Birthday, ed. J. Chrysostomides. Camberley, 1988

Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. B. Arbel London, 1996

Churchmen

Nottingham Medieval Studies 28. Nottingham, 1984

The Joy of Learning and the Love of God: Studies in Honor of Jean Leclercq, ed. E.R Elder, Cistercian Studies 160. Kalamazoo, 1995

East and West in the Crusader States: Context Contacts Confrontations, ed. A. Davids and H. Teule, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 75. Leuven, 1996

Studies in Church History 16. Birmingham, 1979

Attitudes to Islam

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3rd series 7. Cambridge, 1997

CATHARS

Byzantium and the West c. 850c. 1200, ed. J.Howard-Johnstone. Amsterdam, 1988

Heresy and Literacy, c. 10001530, ed. P. Biller and A. Hudson. Cambridge, 1994

A Paper given to a Conference on Heresy in Eastern Europe at the School of Slavonic and East Euorpean Studies of the University of London in July 1994. Previously unpublished.

THE HOLY PLACES

The Catholic Historical Review 80. Washington DC, 1994

Special Issue of The International History Review, dedicated to Essays Commemorating the 900th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the First Crusade, 17(4). Burnaby, 1995

Renaissance and Modern Studies, in a special issue on Christianity and Islam, 31. Nottingham, 1987

This volume contains xii + 336 pages

I should like to thank the following for allowing my articles to be reproduced in this volume: Dr. Robert Swanson and The Ecclesiastical History Society (I and X); Professor H-E. Mayer, Dr. E. Mller-Luckner and the Historische Kolleg of Munich (II); Professor B.Z. Kedar (III); Dr. P.W. Edbury (IV); Miss Julian Chrysostomides and Porphyrogenitus Limited (V); Frank Cass Publishers (VI); Professor M.C.E. Jones and the Board of Nottingham Medieval Studies (VII); Dr. E. Rozanne Elder and Cistercian Publications Inc.(VIII); Victoria van Aalst and the A.A. Bredius Foundation of Kasteel Hernen, and the Peeters Press of Leuven (IX); Dr. David Morgan and the Royal Asiatic Society (XI); Adolf M. Hakkert (XII); Cambridge University Press (XIII); Revd. Mgr. Robert Trisco and The Catholic Historical Review (XV); Professor Edward Ingram and The International History Review (XVI); and Professor Mark Millington and Renaissance and Modern Studies (XVII).

The studies in this volume all deal with relations between Western Europe and the neighbouring civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean. They fall into three main groups. The first is concerned with the settlement of westerners in the Crusader States in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Three of these essays are about the role of women in crusading society, which has hitherto received comparatively little attention. Yet because the states of the Latin East were almost permanently at war considerable powers often had to be delegated to women. Four essays deal with the Church in the Crusader Kingdom. Although the Catholic Church was established there, western Christians were always in a minority, and I have examined some of the ways in which Latin churchmen came to terms with this. My researches have shown that they were remarkably tolerant of eastern Christianity in its various forms. No attempt was made to convert members of other churches to Catholicism, but cordial relations were fostered between the Latins and some of the non-Chalcedonian Christians with the result that some oriental churches, notably the Maronites, were drawn into corporate union with the papacy. The Franks in the east also had many dealings with Muslims, as serfs and merchants and diplomats, as well as enemies on the battlefield. In essay XI I have considered how the Franks came to view their Muslim neighbours and whether they had any real understanding of the Islamic faith.