Jihad and Crusade: Byzantine Positions Towards the Notions of “Holy War”
Jihad and Crusade Byzantine Positions towards the notions of “Holy War” The current study aims to re-approach the issue of religious warfare in Byzantium by exploring Byzantine attitudes towards the conception of crusade in the period 1096-1204. The study aims to analyse Byzantine positions towards the idea of divinely ordained and spiritually meritorious warfare, based on a comparison […]