Encounter between Enemies: Captivity and Ransom in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Author:   Yvonne Friedman
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   10
ISBN:  

9789004117068


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   03 December 2001
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Yvonne Friedman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9789004117068


ISBN 10:   9004117067
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   03 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Tables and Illustrations Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. The First Encounters – Crusaders Face Captivity 2. Prisoners of War in the Levant 3. The Western Legacy 4. Later Encounters 5. Life in Captivity 6. The Way out of Captivity 7. Weak and Violated? The Experience of Women 8. Charity and Prestige – The Military Orders and the Ransom of Captives 9. Shameful Failure or Romantic Hero – Images of Captivity 10. Ransom on Both Sides of the Mediterranean Bibliography Index

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Winner of the 2002 Izhak Ben-Zvi Prize (awarded every year for an outstanding publication in the field of Land of Israel studies in memory of the second president of the State of Israel, Izhak Ben-Zvi). <br>' Friedman advances a bold thesis and brings forward an impressive array of evidence to support it.'<br>James A. Brundage, The International History Review, 2002.<br>


Winner of the 2002 Izhak Ben-Zvi Prize (awarded every year for an outstanding publication in the field of Land of Israel studies in memory of the second president of the State of Israel, Izhak Ben-Zvi). '...a very welcome addition to the scholarly literature not only on the crusades but on the practice of medieval warfare in general.' Alan V. Murray, Crusades, 2006. '...un livre indeniablement remarquable...' Leo Carruthers, Le Moyen Age, 2003. 'Friedman advances a bold thesis and brings forward an impressive array of evidence to support it.' James A. Brundage, The International History Review, 2002.


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Yvonne Friedman, Ph.D. (1980) in History is Senior lecturer in the Martin Szusz Department of Land of Israel Studies and the Department of History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her publications include a book on medieval Christian Jewish Polemics (Peter the Venerable's Tractatus adversus iudaeos, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio mediaevalis vol. 58) and articles on medieval pilgrimage and the ransom of captives.

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