The Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century Contributor(s): Katherine Smith, Katherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783275235 ISBN-13: 9781783275236 Publisher: Boydell Press OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Military - Wars & Conflicts (other) - Religion | Christian Theology - General |
Dewey: 909.07 |
LCCN: 2020455220 |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.35 lbs) 306 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Bible exerted an enormous influence on the crusading movement: it provided medieval Christians with language to describe holy war, spiritual models for crusaders, and justifications for conquests in the East. This book adds to the growing body of scholarship on the biblical underpinnings of crusading, offering a reappraisal of the early twelfth-century narratives of the First Crusade as works of biblical exegesis rather than simply historical texts. It restores these works and their authors to the context of the monastic and cathedral schools where the curricula centred on biblical study, and demonstrates how the crusade's narrators applied familiar methods of scriptural commentary to the crusade, treating it as a text which could, like the Bible, be understood through historical, allegorical, and mystical lenses. |