Week 5

Cursades–Crossing Boundaries

Monday

Discuss Readings on Zotero (19 pgs):

  • Yehoshua Frenkel, “Muslim Responses to the Frankish Dominion in the New East, 1098–1291,” in The Crusades and the Near East : Cultural Histories, ed. Conor Kostick (New York: Routledge, 2011), 27–54.

Wednesday

Discuss Readings on Zotero (16 pgs):

  • Jay Rubenstein, “Tolerance for the Armies of Antichrist: Life on the Frontiers of Twelfth-Century Outremer,” in Papacy, Crusade, and Christian-Muslim Relations, ed. Jessalynn Bird (New York: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), 81–96.

Friday

Recap Discussion

Week 5 test question due