The Prehistory of the Crusades: Toward a Developmental Taxonomy
Burnam W. Reynolds
The Crusades are frequently depicted as if they materialized without sufficient antecedence in the late eleventh century. On those occasions when lines of development that produced this epochal movement discussed, often examined a piece-meal and non-chronological fashion. end result is to downplay important conceptual preconditions necessary for Crusade convey impression endeavor either sprang ‘full blown’ from nowhere or was created on fly. This article suggests components crusading must be identified ordered into type chronological taxonomy so full import might understood. While there numerous, excellent, histories Crusades, I suggest workable prehistory trans-epochal phenomenon not only desirable, but essential. Borrowing well-established field prehistory, seek place antecedents paleo-, meso-, neo-prehistory categories. In way sequential emergence may better illuminate its eventual emergence.
History Compass