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Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade

  • ISBN-13: 9780271066707
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Elizabeth Lapina
  • Price: AUD $163.00
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  • Local release date: 13/09/2015
  • Format: Hardback 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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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.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Eyewitnesses of Miracles

2 Supernatural Interventions in the Battle of Antioch: The Origins

3 Hostile Appropriations of Byzantine Saints by the Normans of the South

4 The Normans of the South: From Scourge of God to Chosen People

5 Judas Maccabeus: A Jewish Warrior, a Christian Patriarch, and a Muslim General

6 “The West Prepares to Illuminate the East”

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Lapina takes a fresh look at how the events in Antioch were reported in chronicles (those written by participants in the Crusades and those created by stay-at-home writers in Western Europe immediately afterwards) and chansons de geste.”

—Brian G. H. Ditcham, Sixteenth Century Journal

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