Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The historiography of the Crusades is how historians and the popular culture have dealt with the Crusades. There are many viewpoints, since Western and Eastern judgments differ sharply. The dichotomy is \"crusade\" as a valiant struggle for a supreme cause, and \"crusade\" as a byword for barbarism and aggression. This contrasting view is a millennium old and the crusades were controversial even among contemporaries.Western sources speak of both heroism, faith and honor, emphasized in chivalric romance, but also of acts of brutality. Orthodox Christian and Islamic chroniclers tell stories of barbarian savagery and brutality, although it was not until 1899 that the first Islamic history of the Crusades was written. Prior to the growth of Arab nationalism in the 20th century, the Crusades were virtually ignored in the Islamic world.In the 21st century the most widely accepted approach among scholars is the pluralist school of crusade history. It has a broad definition that includes as crusades all those medieval military endeavors that were penitential in nature (like pilgrimages), were authorized by bishops or the Pope, and whose participants typically engaged in the rite of taking the cross and the crusader’s vow."@en }
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- Historiography_of_the_Crusades abstract "The historiography of the Crusades is how historians and the popular culture have dealt with the Crusades. There are many viewpoints, since Western and Eastern judgments differ sharply. The dichotomy is \"crusade\" as a valiant struggle for a supreme cause, and \"crusade\" as a byword for barbarism and aggression. This contrasting view is a millennium old and the crusades were controversial even among contemporaries.Western sources speak of both heroism, faith and honor, emphasized in chivalric romance, but also of acts of brutality. Orthodox Christian and Islamic chroniclers tell stories of barbarian savagery and brutality, although it was not until 1899 that the first Islamic history of the Crusades was written. Prior to the growth of Arab nationalism in the 20th century, the Crusades were virtually ignored in the Islamic world.In the 21st century the most widely accepted approach among scholars is the pluralist school of crusade history. It has a broad definition that includes as crusades all those medieval military endeavors that were penitential in nature (like pilgrimages), were authorized by bishops or the Pope, and whose participants typically engaged in the rite of taking the cross and the crusader’s vow.".