Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade /
"Analyzes how chroniclers of the First Crusade attempted to represent the enterprise as a "holy war." Focuses on accounts of miracles, especially the intervention of saints in the battle of Antioch; explores how the chroniclers related the crusade to biblical events"--Provided by...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
2015
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Eyewitnesses of miracles
- Supernatural interventions in the Battle of Antioch : the origins
- Hostile appropriations of Byzantine saints by the Normans of the South
- The Normans of the South : from scourge of God to chosen people
- Judas Maccabeus : a Jewish warrior, a Christian patriarch, and a Muslim general
- "The West prepares to illuminate the East."
