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This volume brings together an international team of scholars to literary influences on selected narratives of the Crusades. The result is an illumination of our understanding of crusading sources and an explanation of the biblical, classical and other literary traditions behind the composition of key texts of the Crusades.
Sommario
Part One: Common Themes 1. Classical sources and the discussion of artillery in the narratives of the Crusades (Colm Flynn) 2. The Influence of Alexander Romances (Sarah Lambert) 3. Functions of Winds in Crusading Sources (Elizabeth Lapina) 4. Byzantine Crusade Sources and their literary Inheritance (Peter Frankopan) 5. The invention of the Holy Lance at Antioch, June 1098 (Léan Ní Chléirigh) 6. Time, Timelessness, and Age in Twelfth-century Chronicles of the Crusades (Sini Kangas) Part Two: Literary Underpinnings in Individual Works 7. Wicher the Swabian's Fight with the Giant (Susan Edgington) 8. The Old French Crusade Cycle (Carol Sweetenham) 9. Crusade Narratives, memory and literary influences on lay authorship (Natasha Hodgson) 10. Odo of Deuil and his models of rhetoric (Conor McCann) 11. Godfrey of Bouillon in the Chanson d’Antioche (Simon John) 12. Classical imagery in William of Tyre’s writing on warfare (Conor Kostick)
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Léan Ní Chléirigh is an Irish Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Natasha Hodgson is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Nottingham Trent University
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This volume brings together an international team of scholars to literary influences on selected narratives of the Crusades. The result is an illumination of our understanding of crusading sources and an explanation of the biblical, classical and other literary traditions behind the composition of key texts of the Crusades.
