The uses of the Bible in Crusader sources / edited by Elizabeth Lapina, Nicholas Morton.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lapina, Elizabeth, 1979-; Morton, Nicholas
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Commentaria 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (497 pages) :; color illustrations, photographs.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 The Crusader Conquest of Jerusalem and Christ’s Cleansing of the Temple /; 2 Violent Hermeneutics of Sacred Space in Jewish and Christian Crusade Literature /; 3 The Sack of Jerusalem in 1099 and Crusader Violence Viewed by Contemporary Chroniclers /; 4 The Slaughter of the Innocents and the Depiction of Children in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Sources of the Crusades /; 5 Reading Raymond: The Bible of Le Puy, the Cathedral Library and the Literary Background of the Liber of Raymond of Aguilers /; 6 ‘Hoc enim non fuit humanum opus, sed divinum’: Robert the Monk’s Use of the Bible in the Historia Iherosolimitana /; 7 Scriptural Allusion in the Crusading Accounts of Frutolf of Michelsberg and his Continuators /; 8 The Use of the Bible in Twelfth-Century Papal Letters to Outremer /; 9 The Use of the Bible in the Arengae of Pope Gregory IX’s Crusade Calls /; 10 ‘Until the Full Number of Gentiles Has Come In’: Exegesis and Prophecy in St Bernard’s Crusade-Related Writings /; 11 The Exegesis of Violence in the Crusade Writings of Ralph Niger and Peter of Blois /; 12 Living in the Penultimate Age: Apocalyptic Thought in James of Vitry’s ad status Sermons /; 13 Preaching and Narrating the Fifth Crusade: Bible, Sermons and the History of a Campaign /; 14 ‘Consenescentis mundi die vergente ad vesperam’: James of Vitry’s Historia Orientalis and Eschatological Rhetoric after the Fourth Lateran Council /; 15 Providential History in the Chronicles of the Baltic Crusades /; 16 Walls of Defence for the House of Israel: Ezekiel 13:5 and the Crusading Movement /; 17 The Maccabees in the Lord’s Temple: Biblical Imagery and Latin Poetry in Frankish Jerusalem /; 18 ‘As it is Said in Scripture and in Law’: The Bible in the Crusader Legal System /; 19 The ‘Holy Women’ in the Liturgy and Art of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Twelfth-Century Jerusalem /; Select Bibliography /; Index of Biblical Citations and References to Biblical Books /; General Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004341218
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Elizabeth Lapina, Nicholas Morton.

The Uses of the Bible in Crusader Sources sets out to understand the ideology and spirituality of crusading by exploring the biblical imagery and exegetical interpretations which formed its philosophical basis. Medieval authors frequently drew upon scripture when seeking to justify, praise, or censure the deeds of crusading warriors on many frontiers. After all, as the fundamental written manifestation of God’s will for mankind, the Bible was the ultimate authority for contemporary writers when advancing their ideas and framing their world view. This volume explores a broad spectrum of biblically-derived themes surrounding crusading and, by doing so, seeks to better comprehend a thought world in which lethal violence could be deemed justifiable according to Christian theology. Contributors are: Jessalynn Bird, Adam M. Bishop, John D. Cotts, Sini Kangas, Thomas Lecaque, T. J. H. McCarthy, Nicholas Morton, Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen, Luigi Russo, Uri Shachar, Iris Shagrir, Kristin Skottki, Katherine Allen Smith, Thomas W. Smith, Carol Sweetenham, Miriam Rita Tessera, Jan Vandeburie, Julian J. T. Yolles, and Lydia Marie Walker.