La Papaute Et Les Croisades / the Papacy and the Crusades

This volume brings together a selection of the papers on the theme of the Papacy and the Crusades, delivered at the 7th Congress of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. After the introduction by Michel Balard, the first papers examine aspects of crusader terminology. The next section deals with events and perceptions in the West, including papers on the crusades against the Albigensians and Frederick II, and on the situation in the Iberian peninsula. There follow studies on relations between crusaders and the local populations in the Byzantine world after 1204 and Frankish Greece, and in Cilician Armenia, while a final pair looks at papal interventions in Poland and Scandinavia.

Michel Balard is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Middle Ages, UniversitAc de Paris 1 - PanthAcon-Sorbonne, France, and from 2001 to 2008 was President of the Society for the Studies of the Crusades and the Latin East