Jay Rubenstein
Author of Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse
About the Author
Jay Rubenstein is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.
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Visual Constructs of Jerusalem (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages) (2015) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Associate Professor of History, The University of Tennessee Knoxville
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- MacArthur Fellowship (2007)
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If you junk the requisite "the crusades are relevant to today because of Samuel Huntingdon" garbage, even the conclusion is interesting- Rubenstein suggests that the first crusade gave some impetus to the 'birth of the individual,' the birth of nationalism and a few other important components of the high middle ages and early modern world.… (more)