The Tarragona Vortex, Volume 1: History Remembered, Revisited and Retold: Interpretations across the Millennia

Author:   Lawrence J. McCrank
Publisher:   Trivent Publishing
Volume:   2
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9786156405470


Pages:   1174
Publication Date:   31 May 2024
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Author:   Lawrence J. McCrank
Publisher:   Trivent Publishing
Imprint:   Trivent Medieval
Volume:   2
Weight:   2.350kg
ISBN:  

9786156405470


ISBN 10:   615640547
Pages:   1174
Publication Date:   31 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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CHAPTER 1. Medieval Realities and Modern Historiography Prolegomena: Retrospection in the New Millennium and Metahistory 1. Grand Themes and Historiographic Problems 2. The Concept of the Frontier: Trans-cultural Ethno-historiography 3. Traditional and Revisionist Historiographies 4. Sources: Founts and Lacunae 5. A New Synthesis: The Master Narrative Revisited CHAPTER 2. Religious Experience in History and Beyond Prolegomena: Driving Forces. Conviction, Compliance, Identity and Devotion 1. Religious Conversion: Psychology, Behavior, and Identity 2. Reform Ideology and Renewal: Historical Restoration Theology 3. Conditioning Agents: Immanence, Alterity and Transcendence 4. Religious Fervor: Empowerment and Dedication CHAPTER 3. Religions at War: Universalism, Rivalry, and Violence Prolegomena: The Crux of the Matter -- Religions Do Not War; People Do 1. Religion and Historical Agency in War and Peace 2. The Islamic Modality: Motivation, Conditioning, and Mobilization 3. The Force of Isl?m to be Reckoned: Friend or Foe? 4. An Arsenal of Faith: Christianity's Counterforce 5. Just War Apologetics: Forethought and Regret Afterward 6. After-Thoughts about Religions in World War CHAPTER 4. Reconquest and Crusade: Evolving Complexity and Confused Paradigms Prolegomena: A Needless Polemic: Reconquest or Crusade -- or Both? 1. Historiographic Debates: Old Questions and Continuing Battles 2. Reconquest Historiography and the Crusades: Peninsular Perspectives 3. Framework Revision for Reconsideration of the Western Theater 4. Crusade Themes Extrapolated for Reconsideration in a New History 5. The Tarragonan Crucible: The Admixture of All-the-Above CHAPTER 5. History in its Environment: People on Land and Sea Prolegomena: Spatial Comprehension and Sense of Place 1. The Iberian Peninsula: Perspectives from a Sub-Continent 2. In the Middle of all Lands: The Mediterranean Basin 3. New and Old Together: Human Geography and Political Mapping 4. New Towns in Old Places: Late-Antique and Medieval Frontiers 5. Changing Landscapes: Geographic Determinism and Human Will List of Illustrations Extended Table of Contents

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Lawrence J. McCrank, BA, MA, MLS, PhD, Professor and Dean Emeritus. Now retired after a 40-year career as a professor and dean / university librarian, your author has written 18 books, bibliographies, and 70 scholarly articles, and thus has been recognized in bibliometric studies as one of America's most published academic librarians. His contributions are in two fields: (1) the Information Sciences and Library / Archives profession for Heritage studies (especially in Archives, Documentation, Curatorship and Library Special Collections, Codicology and Analytical Bibliography) and academic library administration, with a pioneering interest in computer applications from informatics to modern information systems (including one of the first books totally electronically published before widespread digitization); and (2) Medieval and Early Modern History (History of Archives, Libraries, Codicology and Analytical Bibliography, monastic history especially the Cistercians; Church History; and History of the American West). He is a Fellow of SAA (Society of American Archivists) and RSAT (Reial Societat Arqueológico Tarraconensis). After a start at the University of Kansas under a team of outstanding medievalists and as a student of the late Hispanist and AHA bibliographer, Spain's knighted Charles J. Bishko, at the University of Virginia where he earned his PhD (1974), he focused on Tarragona as an emblematic city and northeastern Spain's federated Catalan and Aragonese regions and Occitania in southern France.

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