Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Lands of the Saracen, Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Lands of the Saracens
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Lands of the Saracens, Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Stealing from the Saracens
Author: Diana DarkePublisher: Hurst & Company
ISBN: 1787383059
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Europeans are in denial. Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, they are increasingly distancing themselves from their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But while the legacy of Islam and the Middle East is in danger of being airbrushed out of Western history, its traces can still be detected in some of Europe's most recognisable monuments, from Notre-Dame to St Paul's Cathedral. In this comprehensively illustrated book, Diana Darke sets out to redress the balance, revealing the Arab and Islamic roots of Europe's architectural heritage. She tracks the transmission of key innovations from the great capitals of Islam's early empires, Damascus and Baghdad, via Muslim Spain and Sicily into Europe. Medieval crusaders, pilgrims and merchants from Europe later encountered Arab Muslim culture in journeys to the Holy Land. In more recent centuries, that same route through modern-day Turkey connected Ottoman culture with the West, leading Sir Christopher Wren himself to believe that Gothic architecture should more rightly be called 'the Saracen style', because of its Islamic origins. Recovering this overlooked story within the West's long history of borrowing from the Islamic world, Darke sheds new light on Europe's buildings and offers rich insights into the possibilities of cultural exchange.
The Lands of the Saracens
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Lands of the Saracen
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Franks and Saracens
Author: Avner FalkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429913923
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the added viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars. The reader will learn that the deepest and most powerful motives for the Crusades were not only religious or territorial - or the quest for lands, wealth or titles - but also unconscious emotions and fantasies about one's country, one's religion, one's enemies, God and the Devil, Us and Them. The book also demonstrates the collective inability to mourn large-group losses and the collective needs of large groups such as nations and religions to develop a clear identity, to have boundaries, and to have enemies and allies. Motives which the Crusaders and the Muslims were not aware of were among the most powerful in driving several centuries of terrible and seemingly endless warfare.
Saracens
Author: John Victor TolanPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231123337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages.
How to Defeat the Saracens
Author: William (of Adam)Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN: 9780884023760
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The fall of Acre in 1291 inspired many schemes for crusades to recover Jerusalem. One of these proposals is How to Defeat the Saracens, written around 1317 by William of Adam, a Dominican who traveled in the eastern Mediterranean, Persia, and parts of India. Extensive notes guide the reader through the historical context of this fascinating work
Author: Bayard Taylor