Christen, Muslime und der Erste Kreuzzug
Die Macht der Beschreibung in der mittelalterlichen und modernen Historiographie
Autor | Kristin Skottki |
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Verlag | Waxmann Verlag GmbH |
Erscheinungsjahr | 2015 |
Seitenanzahl | 556 Seiten |
ISBN | 9783830976820 |
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Kopierschutz | kein Kopierschutz/DRM |
Geräte | PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet |
Preis | 44,99 EUR |
Hardly any other medieval event has been judged so contradictorily as the Crusades. For some they denote a >Clash of Civilizations< between Islam and the West. Others seek out examples of peaceful cultural encounters between Christians and Muslims in the time of the Crusades. Kristin Skottki traces the contextual origins of these different interpretations and assesses the assumptions of historical research between the priorities of Orientalism, Occidentalism and Medievalism. At the same time she offers a narratological study of textual representations of encounters between Crusaders and Muslims in medieval chronicles of the First Crusade. Thus, not only does this study address the construction of identities and alterities, but also how to ethically engage with difficult texts from the medieval past.
Kristin Skottki (*1981) ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Kirchengeschichte an der Universität Rostock. Nach Abschluss ihres Studiums der Geschichtswissenschaft und der Theologie/Religious Studies war sie von 2006 bis 2009 Stipendiatin des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs >Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs< an der Universität Rostock. 2011 wurde sie mit dieser Untersuchung an der Theologischen Fakultät Rostock promoviert. Kristin Skottki (*1981) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Church History at Rostock University (Germany). After she received the Master of Arts (M.A.) in History and Theology/Religious Studies, she was a PhD-candidate and fellow of the graduate school >Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship< at Rostock University from 2006 until 2009. In 2011 she received the doctoral degree in the Science of Religion (Doctor rerum religionum) with the present study.