The Cambridge companion to the literature of the Crusades / edited by Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, University of London.
Bale, Anthony Paul, 1975- editor.
2019
PN56.C735 C36 2019 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge companion to the literature of the Crusades / edited by Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, University of London.
ISBN 9781108474511 (hardcover)
1108474519 (hardcover)
9781108464864 (paperback)
1108464866 (paperback)
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Language English
Description xvii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number PN56.C735 C36 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.93358207
Summary "How were the crusades, and the crusaders, narrated, described, and romanticised by the various communities that experienced or remembered them? This Companion provides a critical overview of the diverse and multilingual literary output connected with crusading over the last millennium, from the first writings which sought to understand and report on what was happening, to contemporary Medievalism in which crusading is a potent image of holy war and jihad. The chapters show the enduring legacy of the crusaders' imagery, from the chansons de geste to Walter Scott, from Charlemagne to Orlando Bloom. Whilst the Crusaders' hold on Jerusalem was relatively short-lived, the desire for Jerusalem has had a long afterlife in many cultural contexts and media"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Bale, Anthony Paul, 1975- editor.
Series Cambridge companions to literature.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Introduction / Anthony Bale
Part I. Genres: Crusader Chronicles / Elizabeth Lapina
The Chanson de geste / Marianne Ailes
The Troubadours and Their Lyrics / Linda Paterson
Part II. Contexts and Communities
Rome, Byzantium, and the Idea of Holy War / Connor Wilson
Women's Writing and Cultural Patronage / Helen J. Nicholson
Reading and Writing in Outremer / Anthony Bale
Hebrew Crusade Literature in Its Latin and Arabic Contexts / Uri Zvi Shachar
Part III. Themes and Images
The Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem / Suzanne M. Yeager
Orientalism and the 'Saracen' / Lynn Ramey
Chivalry, Masculinity, and Sexuality / Matthew M. Mesley
Part IV. Heroes
Saladin and Richard I / Christine Chism
'El Cid' (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) / Julian Weiss
Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Louis IX of France / Anne Latowsky
Part V. Afterlives
Romance and Crusade in Late Medieval England / Robert Rouse
Renaissance Crusading Literature: Memory, Translation, and Adaptation / Lee Manion
The Crusades and Medievalism / Louise D'Arcens.

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