How were the Crusades, and the crusaders, narrated, described, and romanticised by the various communities that experienced or remembered them? This Companion provides a critical overview of the diverse and multilingual literary output connected with crusading over the last millennium, from the first writings which sought to understand and report on what was happening, to contemporary medievalism, in which crusading is a potent image of holy war and jihad. The chapters show the enduring legacy of the crusaders' imagery, from the chansons de geste to Walter Scott, from Charlemagne to Orlando Bloom. Whilst the crusaders' hold on Jerusalem was relatively short-lived, the desire for Jerusalem has had a long afterlife in many cultural contexts and media.
Author(s): Anthony Paul Bale
Series: Cambridge Companions To Literature And Classics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 304
Tags: Crusades In Literature
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades
pp i-ii
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades - Title page
pp iii-iii
Copyright page
pp iv-iv
Contents
pp v-vi
Figures
pp vii-viii
Contributors
pp ix-x
Chronology
pp xi-xvi
Abbreviations
pp xvii-xviii
Introduction
pp 1-8
By Anthony Bale
Part I - Genres
pp 9-54
1 - Crusader Chronicles
pp 11-24
By Elizabeth Lapina
2 - The Chanson de geste
pp 25-38
By Marianne Ailes
3 - The Troubadours and Their Lyrics
pp 39-54
By Linda Paterson
Part II - Contexts and Communities
pp 55-118
4 - Rome, Byzantium, and the Idea of Holy War
pp 57-71
By Connor Wilson
5 - Women’s Writing and Cultural Patronage
pp 72-84
By Helen J. Nicholson
6 - Reading and Writing in Outremer
pp 85-101
By Anthony Bale
7 - Hebrew Crusade Literature in Its Latin and Arabic Contexts
pp 102-118
By Uri Zvi Shachar
Part III - Themes and Images
pp 119-164
8 - The Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem
pp 121-135
By Suzanne M. Yeager
9 - Orientalism and the ‘Saracen’
pp 136-145
By Lynn Ramey
10 - Chivalry, Masculinity, and Sexuality
pp 146-164
By Matthew M. Mesley
Part IV - Heroes
pp 165-214
11 - Saladin and Richard I
pp 167-183
By Christine Chism
12 - ‘El Cid’ (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar)
pp 184-199
By Julian Weiss
13 - Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Louis IX of France
pp 200-214
By Anne Latowsky
Part V - Afterlives
pp 215-262
14 - Romance and Crusade in Late Medieval England
pp 217-231
By Robert Rouse
15 - Renaissance Crusading Literature: Memory, Translation, and Adaptation
pp 232-247
By Lee Manion
16 - The Crusades and Medievalism
pp 248-262
By Louise D’Arcens
Further Reading
pp 263-270
Index
pp 271-282
Cambridge Companions To… - Series page
pp 283-288
