The Bible and crusade narrative in the twelfth century /

A new investigation into the twelfth-century accounts of the First Crusasde, showing their complex relationship with the Bible.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Katherine Allen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, [2020]
Series:Crusading in context.
Subjects:
Crusades.
Crusades > Biblical teaching.
Croisades.
Croisades > Enseignement biblique.
Crusades
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontcover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. History and Biblical Exegesis in the Latin West
  • The Educational Context
  • Exegesis, History, and Ideology
  • Glossing the Norman Conquest
  • Conclusion
  • 2. The Bible in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
  • Larger Trends
  • Exegetical Strategies: From Clermont to Jerusalem
  • Glossing Kerbogha's Mother
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Into the Promised Land
  • Sacred Geographies
  • Crusaders as New Israelites
  • Muslims as Biblical Polytheists
  • Crusade History as Polemic
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Babylon and Jerusalem
  • Crusading, the City of God, and the Apostolic Ideal
  • A New Babylon in the East
  • The Conquest of Jerusalem and Christ's Cleansing of the Temple
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion.

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