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Kedar, Benjamin Ze'ev was born on September 2, 1938 in Nitra, Czechoslovakia. Son of Samuel and Lydie (Jeiteles) Kraus. arrived in Israel, 1949.
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This wide-ranging study of medieval Europe's response to the challenge of Islam examines the relationship between ideas of crusade and mission, between European projects for military conquest and those for the conversion of Muslims to Christianity. Covering the years from the emergence of Islam to the fourteenth century, Benjamin Z. Kedar discusses not only the crusades and the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem but also the confrontation of Catholics and Muslims in Sicily and Spain. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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(Steven Runciman characterized intellectual life in the Fr...)
Steven Runciman characterized intellectual life in the Frankish Levant as 'disappointing'; Joshua Prawer claimed that the Franks refused to open up to the East's intellectual achievements. The present collection, the second by Benjamin Kedar in the "Variorum" series, presents facts that require a modification of these still largely prevailing views. The earliest laws of the Kingdom of Jerusalem were influenced by Byzantine legislation; medical routine in the Jerusalem Hospital, unparalleled in Europe, had counterparts in Oriental hospitals; worshippers of different creeds repeatedly converged; multi-directional conversion recurred time after time. Several articles deal with groups that did abstain from intercultural contacts: Muslim villagers, Frankish clerics and hermits. One article dwells on the asymmetry of Frankish and Muslim mutual perceptions. The volume concludes with studies of specific locations: one argues that Acre was considerably larger than hitherto assumed, another compares its Venetian and Genoese quarters and attempts to locate the remains of a main street, a third reconstructs the history of Caymont.
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(Venice (Italy) -- Commerce -- History. Commerce -- Histor...)
Venice (Italy) -- Commerce -- History. Commerce -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500. Genoa (Italy) -- Commerce -- History.
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Kedar, Benjamin Ze'ev was born on September 2, 1938 in Nitra, Czechoslovakia. Son of Samuel and Lydie (Jeiteles) Kraus. arrived in Israel, 1949.
Bachelor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1963. Master of Arts, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1969.
Lecturer Hebrew University, Jerusalem, since 1969, senior lecturer, since 1976, associate professor, since 1981, professor history, since 1986. Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow Massachusetts General Hospital Home, Munich, 1976-1977. Fellow Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1981-1982, 97-98, Institute Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 1983-1984.
President Society for Study of Crusades, since 1995. Chairperson committee on teachers colleges Israel Council for Higher Education, Jerusalem., 1986-1991. Member Israel Academy of Sciences and Huamnities, since 1998.
Chairman board Israel Antiquities Authority, since 2000.
( This wide-ranging study of medieval Europe's response t...)
(Steven Runciman characterized intellectual life in the Fr...)
(A study of the Franks in the Levant between the 11th and ...)
(Venice (Italy) -- Commerce -- History. Commerce -- Histor...)
Married Hannah S. Sauerbrunn, October 11, 1964 (divorced 1984). Children: Arnon, Jordan. Married Nurith H. Kenaan, April 30, 1984.