Detalles del libro
There were significant differences between Latin and Eastern Christians as well as between Christians and Muslims and among Christians, Muslims, and Jews. But, too, an exaggerated emphasis on the religious roots of intolerance has oversimplified the ways in which ideas of tolerance developed. The essays explore these relationships in their complexity in order to penetrate those generalizations that have often distorted more than enlighteried. Tolerance and intolerance therefore are terms that can obscure as much as enlighten.
What the reader discovers in this collection is that these attitudes play an important role in the shaping of international relations. Cross-cultural cooperation was not rare -- not entirely surprising given the diversity of groups involved.
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- ISBN13 9780815628705
- ISBN10 0815628706
- Páginas 191
- Colección Medieval studies
- Año de Edición 2001
- Idioma Inglés
Tolerance and intolerance : social conflict in the age of the Crusades
- Autor/a James M. Powell , Michael Gervers
- Editorial SYRACUSE
- ISBN 9780815628705