Machine generated contents note: 1.`The greatest event since the Resurrection': some medieval views of the crusades -- 2.`The rendez vous of cracked brains'? Reformation, revision, texts and nations 1500-1700 -- 3.Reason, faith and progress: a disputed Enlightenment -- 4.Empathy and materialism: keeping the crusades up to date -- 5.Scholarship, politics and the `golden age' of research -- 6.The end of colonial consensus -- 7.Erdmann, Runciman and the end of tradition? -- 8.Definitions and directions.
