Uri Zvi Shachar, A Pious Belligerence: Dialogical Warfare and the Rhetoric of Righteousness in the Crusading Near East (University of Pennsylvania Press, September 2021)

In A Pious Belligerence Uri Zvi Shachar examines one of the most contested and ideologically loaded issues in medieval history, the clash between Christians, Muslims, and Jews that we call the Crusades. Shachar demonstrates how in chronicles, apocalyptic treatises, and a variety of literary texts in Latin, French, Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic holy warriors are increasingly presented as having been rhetorically and anthropologically shaped through their contacts with their neighbors and adversaries.


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About Saskia Dönitz

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt. Currently I am working in a project on Moshe da Rieti's Miqdash Meat. My main research interests lie in the fields of medieval Jewish history, culture and literature, especially in Byzantium. I am working on my second book on Shemarya ha-Iqriti, a 14th century Byzantine Jewish author and the intellectual horizon reflected in his works.