The uses of the Bible in Crusader sources

The uses of the Bible in Crusader sources /

"The Uses of the Bible in Crusader Sources sets out to understand the ideology and spirituality of crusading by exploring the Biblical imagery and exegetical interpretations which formed its philosophical basis. Medieval authors frequently drew upon scripture when seeking to justify, praise, or...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Lapina, Elizabeth, 1979- (Editor), Morton, Nicholas Edward (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017
Series:Commentaria, sacred texts and their commentaries : Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ; v. 7.
Subjects:
Bible > Theology > History > To 1500 > Sources.
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Crusades > Sources.
Crusades > Philosophy.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Exercise of Violence
  • The Crusader Conquest of Jerusalem and Christ's Cleansing of the Temple / Katherine Allen Smith
  • Violent Hermeneutics of Sacred Space in Jewish and Christian Crusade Literature / Uri Shachar
  • The Sack of Jerusalem in 1099 and Crusader Violence Viewed by Contemporary Chroniclers / Luigi Russo
  • The Slaughter of the Innocents and the Depiction of Children in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Sources of the Crusades / Sini Kangas
  • Part 2. The Chronicles of the First Crusade
  • Reading Raymond : The Bible of Le Puy, the Cathedral Library and the Literary Background of the Liber of Raymond of Aguilers / Thomas Lecaque
  • "Hoc enim non fuit humanum opus, sed divinum" : Robert the Monk's Use of the Bible in the Historia Iherosolimitana / Carol Sweetenham
  • Scriptural Allusion in the Crusading Accounts of Frutolf of Michelsberg and his Continuators / T.J.H. McCarthy
  • Part 3. Papal Correspondence and Crusade Propaganda
  • The Use of the Bible in Twelfth-Century Papal Letters to Outremer / Miriam Rita Tessera
  • The Use of the Bible in the Arengae of Pope Gregory IX's Crusade Calls / Thomas W. Smith
  • "Until the Full Number of Gentiles Has Come In" : Exegesis and Prophecy in St. Bernard's Crusade-Related Writings / Kristin Skottki
  • The Exegesis of Violence in the Crusade Writings of Ralph Niger and Peter of Blois / John D. Cotts
  • Part 4. James of Vitry
  • Living in the Penultimate Age : Apocalyptic Thought in James of Vitry's ad status Sermons / Lydia M. Walker
  • Preaching and Narrating the Fifth Crusade: Bible, Sermons and the History of a Campaign / Jessalynn Bird
  • "Consenescentis mundi die vergente ad vesperam" : James of Vitry's Historia Orientalis and Eschatological Rhetoric after the Fourth Lateran Council / Jan Vandeburie
  • Part 5. The Crusading Movement and the Crusader States
  • Providential History in the Chronicles of the Baltic Crusades / Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen
  • Walls of Defence for the House of Israel : Ezekiel 13:5 and the Crusading Movement / Nicholas Morton
  • The Maccabees in the Lord's Temple : Biblical Imagery and Latin Poetry in Frankish Jerusalem / Julian Yolles
  • "As it is Said in Scripture and in Law" : The Bible in the Crusader Legal System / Adam M. Bishop
  • The "Holy Women" in the Liturgy and Art of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Twelfth-Century Jerusalem / Iris Shagrir.

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