04116cam a22003615i 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007301500190009001600180010902000290012702000260015603500240018204000860020604200140029205000260030608200220033224500880035426000390044230000270048150002870050850400690079550512010086452014250206565000280349065000490351865000340356765000320360165500420363370000410367570000380371620633704AUA.120190610200634.0180817t20182018enk      b    101 0 eng d  a  2018287076  aGBB7L20302bnb7 a0185919452Uk  a9781843844587 (hardback)  a1843844583 (hardback)  a(OCoLC)ocn989966007  aBTCTAbengcBTCTAerdadYDXdBDXdOCLCOdCDXdOCLCFdEQOdNUIdTFWdU3GdQGJdDLC  alccopycat  aPN682.C725b.P37 201804a809/.9335820722300aLiterature of the Crusades /cedited by Simon Thomas Parsons and Linda M. Paterson.  aCambridge : bD.C. Brewer,cc2018.  axiii, 210 p. :c25 cm.  a"This book is the outcome of a one-day research workshop open to the general public which was organized by Simon Parsons in London at Senate House on Saturday 22 March 2014. It contains versions of some of the papers given there with a number of additional contributions."--Page ix.  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [173]-197) and index.00g1.t`Claruit Ibi Multum Dux Lotharingiae': The Development of the Epic Tradition of Godfrey of Bouillon and the Bisected Muslim /rSimon John --g2.tReflecting and Refracting Reality: The Use of Poetic Sources in Latin Accounts of the First Crusade /rCarol Sweetenham --g3.tEmotions and the `Other': Emotional Characterizations of Muslim Protagonists in Narratives of the Crusades (1095 -- 1192) /rStephen J. Spencer --g4.tA Unique Song of the First Crusade: New Observations on the Hatton 77 Manuscript of the Siege d'Antioche /rSimon Thomas Parsons --g5.tCrusade Songs and the Old French Literary Canon /rLuca Barbieri --g6.tWielding the Cross: Crusade References in Cerveri de Girona and Thirteenth-Century Catalan Historiography /rMiriam Cabre --g7.t`Voil ma chancun a la gent fere oir: An Anglo-Norman Crusade Appeal (London, BL Harley 1717, fol. 251v) /rAnna Radaelli --g8.tRichard the Lionheart: The Background to Ja nus hornspris /rCharmaine Lee --g9.tCharles of Anjou: Crusaders and Poets /rJean Dunbabin --g10.tRemembering the Crusaders in Cyprus: The Lusignans, the Hospitallers and the 1191 Conquest of Cyprus in Jean d'Arras's Melusine /rHelen J. Nicholson.8 aThe interrelation of so-called "literary" and "historical" sources of the crusades, and the fluidity of these categorisations, are the central concerns of the essays collected here. They demonstrate what the study of literary texts can do for our historical understanding of the crusading movement, challenging earlier historiographical assumptions about well-known poems and songs, and introducing hitherto understudied manuscript sources which elucidate a rich contemporary compositional culture regarding the matter of crusade.The volume discusses a wide array of European textual responses to the medieval crusading movement, from the Plantagenet and Catalan courts to the Italy of Charles of Anjou, Cyprus, and the Holy Land. Meanwhile, the topics considered include the connexions between poetry and history in the Latin First Crusade texts; the historical, codicological and literary background to Richard the Lionheart's famous song of captivity; crusade references in the troubadour Cerverí of Girona; literary culture surrounding Charles of Anjou's expeditions; the use of the Mélusine legend to strengthen the Lusignans' claim to Cyprus; and the influence of aristocratic selection criteria in manuscript traditions of Old French crusade songs. These diverse approaches are unified in their examination of crusading texts as cultural artefacts ripe for comparison across linguistic and thematic divides.-- 0aCrusades in literature. 0aLiterature, MedievalxHistory and criticism. 7aCrusades in literature.2fast 7aLiterature, Medieval.2fast 7aCriticism, interpretation, etc.2fast1 aParsons, Simon Thomas,eeditor.4edt1 aPaterson, Linda M.,eeditor.4edt