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Close Encounters of the Ambiguous Kind: When Crusaders and Locals Meet

MacEvitt, Christopher

The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, 2011, p.50-73

United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

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Close Encounters of the Ambiguous Kind: When Crusaders and Locals Meet
Autor: MacEvitt, Christopher
Assuntos: Anthropology ; Applied sciences ; Behavioral sciences ; Christianity ; Cities ; City politics ; Communities ; Crusades ; Engineering ; Ethnic groups ; Ethnography ; Ethnology ; Ethnoreligious groups ; European history ; European studies ; Fortresses ; Human geography ; Human societies ; Jacobitism ; Local politics ; Medieval period ; Metropolitan areas ; Military bases ; Military engineering ; Military facilities ; Military infrastructure ; Muslims ; Political geography ; Political movements ; Political science ; Political sociology ; Politics ; Principalities ; Religion ; Social groups ; Social sciences ; Sociology ; Spiritual belief systems ; Towns
É parte de: The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, 2011, p.50-73
Descrição: According to the twelfth-century Jacobite chronicler and bishop Basil bar Shumana, his city of Edessa—Urhay in Syriac—was none other than Ur of the Chaldees, founded by Nimrod and birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham. “Ur,” Basil recognized, was merely an ancient word for “city,” and “hay” signified the Chaldeans.¹ The bishop was justifiably proud of Edessa, a city whose people, according to a well-known legend dating to Late Antiquity, believed in the divinity of Jesus before his death and before the citizens of any other city. While western eyes kept Jerusalem in sharp focus, for many eastern Christians
Editor: United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
Idioma: Inglês

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United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

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