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Holy Land (holy + land)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

The First Crusade and the Latin east as seen from Venice: the account of the Translatio sancti Nicolai

EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 4 2009
Elena Bellomo
The Translatio sancti Nicolai is the earliest Venetian source to describe the deeds of the first crusaders from Venice. It is most likely based on an eyewitness account of the events that was later rewritten in order to provide the historical context for the translation of St Nicholas's relics to Venice. This source ambivalently depicts the nature of the crusader battles, both emphasizing the spiritual value of this fight, mainly seen as a way to fulfil the sequela Christi, and highlighting the significant economic implications of the Christian conquest of the Holy Land. [source]

Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land , By Norman Housley

HISTORY, Issue 316 2009
HELEN J. NICHOLSON
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Crusader Art in the Holy Land, from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291 , By Jaroslav Folda

RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 3 2008
M. Rebecca Leuchak
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Crusader Warfare: Byzantium, Western Europe and the Struggle for the Holy Land 1050,1300 AD , By David Nicolle

THE HISTORIAN, Issue 3 2009
Joshua Birk
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Homelands and Diasporas: Holy Lands and Other Places.

ETHOS, Issue 1 2010
Alex Weingrod, André Levy
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

THE GEOGRAPHICAL DIMENSIONS OF AL-QA'IDA RHETORIC

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 3 2005
JOSEPH J. HOBBS
ABSTRACT. This article examines the geographical ideology of al-Qa'ida. The central questions are to what extent al-Qa'ida terrorism is motivated by a desire to control geographical space, and how the organization defines that space as place in its communiqués. The study also asks whether al-Qa'ida's geographical rhetoric reveals the nature or locations of future attacks. Principal sources are statements and interviews by and with al-Qa'ida leaders. al-Qa'ida classifies distinctive geographical realms of legitimization, preparation, and action. Its geographical concerns and ambitions are hierarchical and based principally on perceptions of sacred space. The holy places of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem are the cornerstones of a greater Islamic holy land that al-Qa'ida seeks to rid of non-Islamic-especially U.S. and "Zionist"-elements and replace with a new caliphate. Terrorism directed principally against American civilians in the United States is one of the main tactics by which al-Qa'ida says it hopes to achieve its goals in geographical space. [source]