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The Cambridge companion to the literature of the Crusades
- Title
- The Cambridge companion to the literature of the Crusades / edited by Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bale, Anthony, 1975-
- Description
- xvii, 281 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge companions to literature.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-4131
- ISBN
- 9781108474511
- 1108474519
- 9781108464864
- 1108464866
- LCCN
- 2018038850
- 40028928569
- OCLC
- 1085638848
- Title
- The Cambridge companion to the literature of the Crusades / edited by Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge companions to literatureCambridge companions to literature.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Bale, Anthony, 1975- editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028928569
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-4131