Wisconsin Collaborative History of the Crusades

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The Wisconsin Collaborative History of the Crusades is a six-volume set on the Crusades through the 16th century, published from 1969 to 1989. The work was a major collaborative effort under the general editorship of American medieval historian Kenneth M. Setton. [1] [2] Begun at the University of Pennsylvania in 1950, the work was finished at the University of Wisconsin, and is generally known as the Wisconsin History. Setton oversaw the work of over sixty specialists, covering 98 topics on the full gamut of Crusader studies, reflecting of the concurrent state of the knowledge, with timelines, gazetteers and indexes. The work may be today regarded as uneven in parts and at times dated, but remains as an important resource in the study of the various aspects of crusading history, with fine maps, bibliographies and toponymic details. [3] [4]

The contents of the Wisconsin Collaborative History are as follows.

Writing in the foreword, Setton described the work as being originally devised by Dana C. Munro whose ambition was to write a comprehensive history of the Crusades. [13] The inception was realized by students of Munro's, including Frederic Duncalf, together with John L. LaMonte and German historian August C. Krey. Duncalf and Steven Runciman would later write the key chapters on the First Crusade. They were joined by such historians as Aziz S. Atiya, Marshall W. Baldwin, T. S. R. Boase, Claude Cahen, H. A. R. Gibb, Philip K. Hitti, Urban T. Holmes, Jr., Joan Mervyn Hussey, Bernard Lewis, Sidney Painter, Joshua Prawer, Jean Richard, Denis Sinor, Joseph Reese Strayer, Robert L. Wolff and Norman P. Zacour in writing the comprehensive history.

The origins of the need for such a history is discussed by LaMonte in his Some Problems in Crusading Historiography. [14] LaMonte's leadership on the project ended with his death in 1949, and the lead was assumed by Setton at the University of Pennsylvania in 1950. The Wisconsin History, Runciman's A History of the Crusades, and René Grousset's Histoire des croisades are the three works that rank as being monumental by 20th century standards, according to The Routledge Companion to the Crusades. [3]

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A History of the Crusades: list of contributions provides the collected works that appear in the six-volume set A History of the Crusades, edited by Kenneth M. Setton. Published by the University of Wisconsin Press, it is also known as the Wisconsin Collaborative History of the Crusades. The volumes were published from 1969–1989 and consists of 89 chapters covering nearly 5000 pages. Writen by 64 prominent historians, it is one of the most important books on the Crusades.

References

  1. ↑ Setton, K. M. (Kenneth Meyer). (1969). A history of the Crusades. [2d ed.] Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  2. ↑ Setton, Kenneth M., ed. (1969-1989). A history of the Crusades. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  3. 1 2 Lock, Peter (2006). Routledge, Abingdon. "The Routledge Companion to the Crusades". p. 269.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Constable, Giles (2001), The Historiography of the Crusades Archived 2021-07-02 at the Wayback Machine , in The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, edited by Laiou, Angeliki E. and Mottahedeh, Roy P.
  5. ↑ Baldwin, M. W. (1969). The History of the Crusades, Volume 1 (1969). "The First One Hundred Years".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ Wolff, R. L., and Hazard, H. W. (1969). A History of the Crusades, Volume II (1969). "The Later Crusades, 1189–1311".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ Hazard, H. W. (1975). A History of the Crusades, Volume III. "The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries".
  8. ↑ Hazard, H. W. (1979). A History of the Crusades, Volume IV. "The art and architecture of the Crusader States".
  9. ↑ Zacour, N. P., and Hazard, H. W. (1985). A History of the Crusades, Volume V. "The impact of the Crusades on the Near East".
  10. ↑ Zacour, N. P., and Hazard, H. W. (1989). A History of the Crusades, Volume VI. "The impact of the Crusades on Europe".
  11. ↑ Mayer, H. E., and McLellan, J. (1989). In Volume VI. The Impact of the Crusades on Europe. "Select bibliography of the Crusades" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Hazard, H. W. (1975). A History of the Crusades, Volume III. "The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries". Important Dates and Events.
  13. ↑ Setton, Kenneth M. (1969). Foreword to The History of the Crusades.
  14. ↑ La Monte, J. (1940). Some Problems in Crusading Historiography. Speculum, 15(1), 57-75.
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