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Franks and Saracens : reality and fantasy in the Crusades
- Title
- Franks and Saracens : reality and fantasy in the Crusades / Avner Falk.
- Author
- Falk, Avner.
- Publication
- London : Karnac, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-7975 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 225 p.; 23 cm
- Summary
- This is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the added viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars. The reader will learn that the deepest and most poweful motives for the Crusades were not only religious or territorial - or the quest for lands, wealth or titles - but also unconscious emotions and fantasies about one's country, one's religion, one's enemies, God and the Devil, and Us and Them. The book also focuses on the collective inability to mourn large-group losses and the collective needs of large groups such as nations and religions to develop a clear identity, to have boundaries, and to have enemies and allies. Motives which the Crusaders and the Muslims were not aware of were among the most powerful in driving several centuries of terrible and seemingly endless warfare. --Book Jacket.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-218) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-7975
- ISBN
- 9781855757332
- 1855757338
- OCLC
- 609538666
- Author
- Falk, Avner.
- Title
- Franks and Saracens : reality and fantasy in the Crusades / Avner Falk.
- Imprint
- London : Karnac, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-218) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-7975