Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815628699)

This wide-ranging collection explores the issue of tolerance during the period of the Crusades through the treatment of prisoners, the ransom of captives, and the problems faced by many groups. One of the central issues revolves around the attitudes of the participants.

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 enlightened. 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.

Author: Michael Gervers
ISBN-10: 0815628692
ISBN-13: 9780815628699
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 124