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Book SynopsisCrusade scholarship has exploded in popularity over the past two decades. This volume captures the resulting diversity of approaches, which often cross cultures and academic disciplines. The contributors to this volume offer new perspectives on topics as varied as the application of Roman law on slavery to the situation of Muslims in the Latin East, Muslim appropriation of Latin architectural spolia, the roles played by the crusade in medieval preaching, and the impact of Latin East refugees on religious geography in late medieval Cyprus. Together these essays demonstrate how pervasive the institution of crusade was in medieval Christendom, as much at home in Europe as in the Latin East, and how much impact it carried forth into the modern era. Contributors are Richard Allington, Jessalynn Bird, Adam M. Bishop, Tomasz Borowski, Yan Bourke, Sam Zeno Conedera, Charles W. Connell, Cathleen A. Fleck, Lisa Mahoney, and C. Matthew Phillips.
Trade Review"This is an ambitious and truly interdisciplinary collection of essays, all studies which were presented at the third quadrennial International Symposium at Saint Louis University, most of them by early career researchers, the new generation of Crusade historians. It is rare to see gathered in one volume studies engaging with such a range of source materials, from seals and coins to archaeology, sermons to chronicles. Another strength is the use of texts and secondary materials in different languages bringing different perspectives to bear". Marianne Ailes, in The Medieval Review , May 2020.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Structures of Crusading 1 The Church of the Nativity and “Crusader” Kingship Lisa Mahoney 2 Signs of Leadership: Buildings of Jerusalem in a Crusader Relief Cathleen A. Fleck 3 Religion and Conflict: Investigating the Role of Relics and Holy Sites in the Religiously Diverse Society of Crusader Famagusta, Cyprus Tomasz Borowski 4 Adaptations of the Roman Lex Aquiliain the Burgess Assizes of Jerusalem Adam M. Bishop Part 2: Crusade Preaching 5 “Far be it from Me to Glory Save in the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ” (Galatians 6:14): Crusade Preaching and Sermons for Good Friday and Holy Week Jessalynn Bird 6 The Typology of the Cross and Crusade Preaching C. Matthew Phillips 7 Missing the Apocalypse in Preaching the Crusades Charles W. Connell Part 3: Perceptions of Crusade and Combatants 8 Schismatics and Crusaders: The Role of Innocent II’s Condemnation of John Comnenus in the History of Byzantine and Papal Relations with Latin Antioch Richard Allington 9 Muslims in the “Gesta Family”: Understanding of Muslim Religious Identity and the Use of Accounts of Violence to Depict Muslims as “Other” in the Gesta Francorum and Its Derivatives Yan Bourke 10 Universal Monarchs: Crusading in the Life of St. Ignatius Loyola Sam Zeno Conedera, SJ Index
