Author: James F. McEaney
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590331804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Crusades A Bibliography With Indexes

Author: Edward Hartley Dewart
Publisher: Montreal, Lovell
ISBN:
Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Marisa Galvez
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022669335X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives in lyric poetry, putting words to the experience of personal sacrifice and the pious struggle associated with holy war. The crusaders affirmed their commitment to fighting to claim a distant land while revealing their feelings as they left behind their loved ones, homes, and earthly duties. Their poems and related visual works offer us insight into the crusaders’ lives and values at the boundaries of earthly and spiritual duties, body and soul, holy devotion and courtly love. In The Subject of Crusade, Marisa Galvez offers a nuanced view of holy war and crusade poetry, reading these lyric works within a wider conversation with religion and culture. Arguing for an interdisciplinary treatment of crusade lyric, she shows how such poems are crucial for understanding the crusades as a complex cultural and historical phenomenon. Placing them in conversation with chronicles, knightly handbooks, artworks, and confessional and pastoral texts, she identifies a particular “crusade idiom” that emerged out of the conflict between pious and earthly duties. Galvez fashions an expanded understanding of the creative works made by crusaders to reveal their experiences, desires, ideologies, and reasons for taking up the cross.

Author: Alan V. Murray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576078639
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1550

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The first multivolume encyclopedia to document the history of one of the most influential religious movements of the Middle Ages—the Crusades. The Crusades: An Encyclopedia surveys all aspects of the crusading movement from its origins in the 11th century to its decline in the 16th century. Unlike other works, which focus on the eastern Mediterranean region, this expansive four-volume encyclopedia also includes the struggle of Christendom against its enemies in Iberia, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic region, and also covers the military orders, crusades against fellow Christians, heretics, and more. This work includes comprehensive entries on personalities such as Godfrey of Bouillon, who refused the title "King of Jerusalem," and St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who tore up his own clothing to make symbols of the cross for crusaders, as well as key events, countries, places, and themes that shed light on everything from the propaganda that inspired crusading warriors to the ways in which they fought. Special coverage of topics such as taxation, pilgrimage, warfare, chivalry, and religious orders give readers an appreciation of the multifaceted nature of these "holy wars."

Author: Stefan Erik Kristiaan Vander Elst
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812248961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Examining English, Latin, French, and German texts, The Knight, the Cross, and the Song traces the role of secular chivalric literature in shaping Crusade propaganda across three centuries.

Author: Usama ibn Munqidh
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141919175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.

Author: Chronicles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594

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Author: Simon Thomas Parsons
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
ISBN: 9781843844587
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades.

Author: Lee Manion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107057817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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The first study to demonstrate how English literature continued to engage with crusading from medieval romances right through to Shakespeare.

Author: Osman Latiff
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004345221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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In this comprehensive analysis of Arabic poetry during the period of the crusades (sixth/twelfth-seventh/thirteenth centuries), Osman Latiff provides an insightful examination of the poets who inspired Muslims to unite in the jihād against the Franks. The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword not only contributes to our understanding of literary history, it also illuminates a broad spectrum of religiosity and the role of political propaganda in the anti-Frankish Muslim struggle. Latiff shows how poets, often used by the ruling elite to promote their rule, emphasised the centrality of Islam’s holy sites to inspire the Muslim response to the occupation and later reconquest of Jerusalem, and expressed some surprising views of Frankish Christians.