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Indlæser... A History of the Crusades [3-volume set] (1951)af Steven Runciman
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Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. ![]() ![]() The style is there. What about the substance? Let there be no mistake: Steven Runciman's work on the crusades is brilliantly written. Stylistically, it is one of the great works of the historian's art. If you want a good general history of the Crusades, you can hardly hope for better. But... is it reliable? This seems a horrid question to ask about a work that is a genuine tour de force. But Runciman's footnotes are, to be honest, rather thin on the ground. And one of the sad facts about the Crusades is that just about everyone who wrote at the time had an axe to grind -- usually to blame Somebody Else (Christians, Moslems, That Other King) for everything that had gone wrong. To avoid an endless list of "He said... She said..." controversies, Runciman often takes what seems to him most reasonable, and runs with it. His assumptions are (probably) usually right, and always reasonable -- he really was a brilliant scholar who knew the era well. But they aren't certain. This really doesn't matter much to the casual reader. And there is no question: I enjoy reading Runciman, far more than any other history of the Crusades, short or long. It is a work of art. But it is now badly out of date, and it is full of hypotheses that can too easily be confused with fact. Read it, love it, treasure it -- but verify it. Clasico, clasiquísimo de la historiagrafía de las Cruzadas, aunque como ya dije cuando lo mencioné en el hilo de libros recién comprados, hoy superado. No se trata de un análisis exhaustivo de las causas, motivaciones, entorno y relaciones que se generaron en torno a las cruzadas, sino más bien una narración historiográfica, en la línea de Gibbon con La Caída de Roma o el más reciente que comentaba de Goldsworthy. Es decir, el tipo coge la situación inicial y te va contando, con una excelente prosa, cómo se iban gestando los diferentes movimientos que condujeron a la primera cruzada, dedicando atención a sus principales cabezas y a lo que ocurrió después hasta la toma de Jerusalén. Lo más interesante, dejando a un lado la ausencia de aparato crítico, es la multitud de fuentes que usa, no sólo las de su tiempo en casi todos los idiomas, sino las históricas y muchas veces en el idioma general, lo que le permite pintar un fresco apabullante –sin mucha perspectiva, eso sí. Como iniciación al tema, de una forma amena y con un clásico no puede haber otro. It is difficult to talk about Runciman or his History of the Crusades without using superlatives. Published between 1951 and 1954 this three volume set is a timeless masterpiece. His history of this original 'Clash of Civilizations' is at once tragic, grand, and sobering. There is an extraordinary immediacy about Runciman's history, as if you were reading newspaper reports day by day. Runciman's genius was not only to be able to make history come alive, but to dissect and lay out before anyone who cared to find them, the themes and principles governing Middle Eastern politics that resonate down to today. Comparison’s are difficult, but if you imagine the best of Barbara Tuchman, and Shelby Foote’s history of the Civil War (subsequently televised), you begin to get the picture. Anyone who claims to know anything or wants to know more about the Middle East should read this book. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
IndeholderA History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem af Steven Runciman A History of the Crusades. Volume II. The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187 af Steven Runciman
Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. Volume I deals completely with the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Volume II describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin, and in the final volume, Runciman examines the revival of the Frankish kingdom from the time of the Third Crusade until its collapse a century later. The interwoven themes of the book include: Christiandom, the replacement of the cultured Ayubites by the less sympathetic Mameluks as leader of the Moslem world, and the coming of the Mongols. Runciman includes a chapter on architecture and the arts, and an epilogue on the last manifestations of the Crusading spirit. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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