Author: Stefan Vander Elst
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The Knight, the Cross, and the Song offers a new perspective on the driving forces of crusading in the period 1100-1400. Although religious devotion has long been identified as the primary motivation of those who took the cross, Stefan Vander Elst argues that it was by no means the only focus of the texts written to convince the warriors of Western Christianity to participate in the holy war. Vander Elst examines how, across three centuries, historiographical works that served as exhortations for the Crusade sought specifically to appeal to aristocratic interests beyond piety. They did so by appropriating the formal and thematic characteristics of literary genres favored by the knightly class, the chansons de geste and chivalric romance. By using the structure, commonplaces, and traditions of chivalric literature, propagandists associated the Crusade with the decidedly secular matters to which arms-bearers were drawn. This allowed them to introduce the mutual obligation between lord and vassal, family honor, the thirst for adventure, and even the desire for women as parallel and complementary motivations for Crusade, making chivalric and literary concerns an indelible part of the ideology and practice of holy war. Examining English, Latin, French, and German texts, ranging from the twelfth-century Gesta Francorum and Chanson d'Antioche to the fourteenth-century Krônike von Prûzinlant and La Prise d'Alixandre, The Knight, the Cross, and the Song traces the historical development and geographical spread of this innovative use of secular chivalric fiction both to shape the memory and interpretation of past events and to ensure the continuation of the holy war.
The Knight, the Cross, and the Song
Author: Stefan Vander Elst
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The Knight, the Cross, and the Song offers a new perspective on the driving forces of crusading in the period 1100-1400. Although religious devotion has long been identified as the primary motivation of those who took the cross, Stefan Vander Elst argues that it was by no means the only focus of the texts written to convince the warriors of Western Christianity to participate in the holy war. Vander Elst examines how, across three centuries, historiographical works that served as exhortations for the Crusade sought specifically to appeal to aristocratic interests beyond piety. They did so by appropriating the formal and thematic characteristics of literary genres favored by the knightly class, the chansons de geste and chivalric romance. By using the structure, commonplaces, and traditions of chivalric literature, propagandists associated the Crusade with the decidedly secular matters to which arms-bearers were drawn. This allowed them to introduce the mutual obligation between lord and vassal, family honor, the thirst for adventure, and even the desire for women as parallel and complementary motivations for Crusade, making chivalric and literary concerns an indelible part of the ideology and practice of holy war. Examining English, Latin, French, and German texts, ranging from the twelfth-century Gesta Francorum and Chanson d'Antioche to the fourteenth-century Krônike von Prûzinlant and La Prise d'Alixandre, The Knight, the Cross, and the Song traces the historical development and geographical spread of this innovative use of secular chivalric fiction both to shape the memory and interpretation of past events and to ensure the continuation of the holy war.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The Knight, the Cross, and the Song offers a new perspective on the driving forces of crusading in the period 1100-1400. Although religious devotion has long been identified as the primary motivation of those who took the cross, Stefan Vander Elst argues that it was by no means the only focus of the texts written to convince the warriors of Western Christianity to participate in the holy war. Vander Elst examines how, across three centuries, historiographical works that served as exhortations for the Crusade sought specifically to appeal to aristocratic interests beyond piety. They did so by appropriating the formal and thematic characteristics of literary genres favored by the knightly class, the chansons de geste and chivalric romance. By using the structure, commonplaces, and traditions of chivalric literature, propagandists associated the Crusade with the decidedly secular matters to which arms-bearers were drawn. This allowed them to introduce the mutual obligation between lord and vassal, family honor, the thirst for adventure, and even the desire for women as parallel and complementary motivations for Crusade, making chivalric and literary concerns an indelible part of the ideology and practice of holy war. Examining English, Latin, French, and German texts, ranging from the twelfth-century Gesta Francorum and Chanson d'Antioche to the fourteenth-century Krônike von Prûzinlant and La Prise d'Alixandre, The Knight, the Cross, and the Song traces the historical development and geographical spread of this innovative use of secular chivalric fiction both to shape the memory and interpretation of past events and to ensure the continuation of the holy war.
The Knight, the Cross, and the Song
Author: Stefan Erik Kristiaan Vander Elst
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812248961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Examining English, Latin, French, and German texts, The Knight, the Cross, and the Song traces the role of secular chivalric literature in shaping Crusade propaganda across three centuries.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812248961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Examining English, Latin, French, and German texts, The Knight, the Cross, and the Song traces the role of secular chivalric literature in shaping Crusade propaganda across three centuries.
The Knight of the Cross, the Favorite Harper's Song, Sung ... in the Grand Melo Drama, Called The Hag of the Lake ... with a Harp Or Piano Forte Accompaniment
Author: M. P. Corri
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The Knights of the Cross; Or, Krzyżacy
Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Cross' Templar's Chart
Author: Jeremy L. Cross
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
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The Leviathan Songster, Containing a Choice Collection of Comic and Sentimental Songs, Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Pages : 156
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The Atheneum
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Pages : 500
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The Crusade of Fidelis, a Knight of the Order of the Cross
Author: Fidelis (Knight of the Order of the Cross.)
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Category : Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Knight's Cross Panzers
Author: Hans Schäufler
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811705927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
First time in English. Unit history of a tank regiment on the Eastern Front. Relies on firsthand accounts, after-action reports, letters, diaries, and newspapers.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811705927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
First time in English. Unit history of a tank regiment on the Eastern Front. Relies on firsthand accounts, after-action reports, letters, diaries, and newspapers.
Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].
Author: Edmund Spenser
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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