The Knight, the Cross, and the Song : : Crusade Propaganda and Chivalric Literature, 11-14 / / Stefan Vander Elst.
The Knight, the Cross, and the Song offers a new perspective on the driving forces of crusading in the period 1100-1400. Although religious devotion has long been identified as the primary motivation of those who took the cross, Stefan Vander Elst argues that it was by no means the only focus of the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- A Note on Names
- Introduction
- Part I. The Chanson de Geste in Crusade Propaganda
- 1. Pilgrims and Settlers
- 2. The Gesta Francorum
- 3. Robert of Reims’s Historia Iherosolimitana
- 4. The Old French Crusade Cycle: Crusade as a War of Families
- Part II. Chivalric Romance in Crusade Propaganda
- 5. The Challenge of Romance and the Thirteenth Century
- 6. Nicolaus of Jeroschin and the Fourteenth-Century Crusade
- 7. Adventure and the East in the Second Old French Crusade Cycle
- 8. The Ideal Crusader in La Prise d’Alixandre
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments