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Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade
- Title
- Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade / Elizabeth Lapina.
- Author
- Lapina, Elizabeth, 1979-
- Publication
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-5920 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 212 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Analyzes how chroniclers of the First Crusade attempted to represent the enterprise as a "holy war." Focuses on accounts of miracles, especially the intervention of saints in the battle of Antioch; explores how the chroniclers related the crusade to biblical events"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index.
- Contents
- Eyewitnesses of miracles -- Supernatural interventions in the Battle of Antioch : the origins -- Hostile appropriations of Byzantine saints by the Normans of the South -- The Normans of the South : from scourge of God to chosen people -- Judas Maccabeus : a Jewish warrior, a Christian patriarch, and a Muslim general -- "The West prepares to illuminate the East".
- Call Number
- JFE 15-5920
- ISBN
- 9780271066707 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0271066709 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2015003524
- OCLC
- 898909974
- Author
- Lapina, Elizabeth, 1979- author.
- Title
- Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade / Elizabeth Lapina.
- Publisher
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-5920