Medieval History
Helen Nicholson recently reviewed Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011) for Medievally Speaking. The review was curated by Michael Evans.
This volume contains a slightly revised edition of the Bampton Lectures in America that Jonathan Riley-Smith presented at Columbia University in 2007. The material draws together and builds on research and discussion which Professor Riley-Smith has published separately elsewhere. It provides a useful summary of his views on the nature of medieval crusading, but also continues the history of the movement into modern times. Riley-Smith shows how the concept of crusading and particularly of the military-religious orders was used as an instrument of imperialism during the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth?. READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE
- Duke Partners With University Of Wisconsin-madison For Florence Study Abroad Program
A long-standing Duke global education program in Italy is changing shape. The Duke in Florence program is ending after its host institution, the University of Michigan, decided to close its program near Florence, Italy, after Fall 2011. Duke in Florence,...
- Syracuse University Examines ?sex And Power From The Middle Ages To The Enlightenment?
The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University?s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of ?Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment? with a mini residency by Italian Renaissance scholar Michael Rocke. Rocke?the...
- Review: Jonathan Riley-smith, The Crusades, Christianity, And Islam
Recently, the lovely people at Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Jonathan Riley-Smith's The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam for review. Buy it here or here. ----- It's probably not too much to say that Jonathan Riley-Smith (recently...
- Medievally Speaking Reviews: Montoya, Medievalist Enlightenment; Nagel, Medieval Modern; And Stromberg, Maleficent
Please find the following new reviews on Medievally Speaking (http://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com/): Alicia C. Montoya. Medievalist Enlightenment: From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013. 256pp. Reviewed by...
- Portrait And Counter-portrait
"Portrait and Counter-Portrait in Holbein's The Family of Sir Thomas More" by David R. Smith, published in The Art Bulletin, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 484-506 Smith's main argument: "The point of the picture's irony is not so much...
Medieval History
Nicholson reviews Riley-Smith, The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam
This volume contains a slightly revised edition of the Bampton Lectures in America that Jonathan Riley-Smith presented at Columbia University in 2007. The material draws together and builds on research and discussion which Professor Riley-Smith has published separately elsewhere. It provides a useful summary of his views on the nature of medieval crusading, but also continues the history of the movement into modern times. Riley-Smith shows how the concept of crusading and particularly of the military-religious orders was used as an instrument of imperialism during the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth?. READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE
- Duke Partners With University Of Wisconsin-madison For Florence Study Abroad Program
A long-standing Duke global education program in Italy is changing shape. The Duke in Florence program is ending after its host institution, the University of Michigan, decided to close its program near Florence, Italy, after Fall 2011. Duke in Florence,...
- Syracuse University Examines ?sex And Power From The Middle Ages To The Enlightenment?
The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University?s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of ?Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment? with a mini residency by Italian Renaissance scholar Michael Rocke. Rocke?the...
- Review: Jonathan Riley-smith, The Crusades, Christianity, And Islam
Recently, the lovely people at Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Jonathan Riley-Smith's The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam for review. Buy it here or here. ----- It's probably not too much to say that Jonathan Riley-Smith (recently...
- Medievally Speaking Reviews: Montoya, Medievalist Enlightenment; Nagel, Medieval Modern; And Stromberg, Maleficent
Please find the following new reviews on Medievally Speaking (http://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com/): Alicia C. Montoya. Medievalist Enlightenment: From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013. 256pp. Reviewed by...
- Portrait And Counter-portrait
"Portrait and Counter-Portrait in Holbein's The Family of Sir Thomas More" by David R. Smith, published in The Art Bulletin, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 484-506 Smith's main argument: "The point of the picture's irony is not so much...