Franks and Saracens

Auteur

Dr Avner Falk (born 1943) is an internationally known Israeli clinical psychologist and independent scholar. His scholarly specialty is applied psychoanalysis, including psychohistory, psychobiography, political psychology, and psychogeography. He has published 11 books and dozens of articles. His most recent book is Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon, the winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature (Brill 2018).

Résumé
Franks and Saracens is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars.

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Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1. Us And Them

Chapter 2. Romans, Germans, and Berbers

Chapter 3. Myths of Origin

Chapter 4. The Cross and the Crusades

Chapter 5. The Fantasy of the Holy Roman Empire

Chapter 6. A Short History of the Saracens

Chapter 7. The First Crusade: Acting Out Rescue Fantasies

Chapter 8. The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem as a Psychogeographical Fantasy

Chapter 9. The Second Crusade: Persisting Rescue Fantasies

Chapter 10. Templars And Hospitallers: Monastic Knights?

Chapter 11. The Saracens Look at The Franks

Chapter 12. The Third Crusade: A Lionheart in Search of a Holy Land?

Chapter 13. The Fourth Crusade: Latin Christians Kill Greek Christians

Chapter 14. The Fifth Crusade: An Invasion of Egypt that Predictably Fails

Chapter 15. The Sixth Crusade: Winning Jerusalem Peacefully

Chapter 16. The Seventh Crusade: The Unhappy War of Saint Louis

Chapter 17. The Eighth Crusade: The Tragic Death of Saint Louis

Chapter 18. The Ninth Crusade: End of a Two-Century Fantasy

Chapter 19. Trauma in the Crusades

Chapter 20. Aftermath: The End Of A Two-Century Fantasy

Epilogue: The New Crusaders

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