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Author : Kathryn Hurlock
Release : 2015
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 25X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World by : Kathryn Hurlock
Download or read book Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World written by Kathryn Hurlock. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination into two of the most important activities undertaken by the Normans.
Author : Mary Boyle
Release : 2021
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 806/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages by : Mary Boyle
Download or read book Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages written by Mary Boyle. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the bursar of Eton College, a canon of Mainz Cathedral, a young knight from near Cologne, and a Kentish nobleman's chaplain have in common? Two Germans, residents of the Holy Roman Empire, and two Englishmen, just as the western horizons of the known world were beginning to expand. These four men - William Wey, Bernhard von Breydenbach, Arnold von Harff, and Thomas Larke - are amongst the thousands of western Christians who undertook the arduous journey to the Holy Land in the decades immediately before the Reformation. More importantly, they are members of a much more select group: those who left written accounts of their travels, for the journey to Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages took place not only in the physical world, but also in the mind and on the page. Pilgrim authors contended in different ways with the collision between fifteenth-century reality and the static textual Jerusalem, as they encountered the genuinely multi-religious Middle East. This book examines the international literary phenomenon of the Jerusalem pilgrimage through the prism of these four writers. It explores the process of collective and individual identity construction, as pilgrims came into contact with members of other religious traditions in the course of the expression of their own; engages with the uneasy relationship between curiosity and pilgrimage; and investigates both the relevance of genre and the advent of print to the development of pilgrimage writing. Ultimately pilgrimage is revealed as a conceptual space with a near-liturgical status, unrestricted by geographical boundaries and accessible both literally and virtually.
Author : Stephen J. Spencer
Release : 2019-10-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 369/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291 by : Stephen J. Spencer
Download or read book Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291 written by Stephen J. Spencer. This book was released on 2019-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays-primarily fear, anger, and weeping-were understood, represented, and utilised in twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades, making use of a broad range of comparative material to gauge the distinctiveness of those texts: crusader letters, papal encyclicals, model sermons, chansons de geste, lyrics, and an array of theological and philosophical treatises. In addition to charting continuities and changes over time in the emotional landscape of crusading, this study identifies the underlying influences which shaped how medieval authors represented and used emotions; analyzes the passions crusade participants were expected to embrace and reject; and assesses whether the idea of crusading created a profoundly new set of attitudes towards emotions. Emotions in a Crusading Context calls on scholars of the crusades to reject the traditional methodological approach of taking the emotional descriptions embedded within historical narratives as straightforward reflections of protagonists' lived feelings, and in so doing challenges the long historiographical tradition of reconstructing participants' beliefs and experiences from these texts. Within the history of emotions, Stephen J. Spencer demonstrates that, despite the ongoing drive to develop new methodologies for studying the emotional standards of the past, typified by experiments in 'neurohistory', the social constructionist (or cultural-historical) approach still has much to offer the historian of medieval emotions.
Author : Steve Tibble
Release : 2024-07-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 079/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Crusader Criminals by : Steve Tibble
Download or read book Crusader Criminals written by Steve Tibble. This book was released on 2024-07-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores the criminal underbelly of the crusades. From gangsters and bandits to muggers and pirates, Tibble presents extraordinary evidence of an illicit underworld. He shows how the real problem in the region stemmed not from religion but from young men. Dislocated, disinhibited, and present in disturbingly large numbers, they were the propellant that stoked two centuries of unceasing warfare and shocking levels of criminality. Crusader Criminals charts the downward spiral of desensitisation that grew out of the horrors of incessant warfare--and in doing so uncovers some of the most surprising stories of the time.
Author : Beth C. Spacey
Release : 2020
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 189/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative by : Beth C. Spacey
Download or read book The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative written by Beth C. Spacey. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive study of miracles in Crusade narrative, showing how and why they were deployed by their authors.
