Description
Book SynopsisPublished in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays is drawn from a conference held at the University of Pittsburgh on October 27-28, 1988. The essays explore "the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the central role of these enterprises for the history of European society and thought. . . ." - from the Preface
Table of ContentsPreface by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur
Pilgrimage and Crusade Literature by J. G. Davies
Pilgrimage and Sacral Power by Robert Worth Frank, Jr.
Journeys to the Center of the Earth: Medieval and Renaissance Pilgrimages to Mount Calvary by Dorothea R. French
Stephen of Cloyes, Philip Augustus, and the Children's Crusade of 1212 by Gary Dickson
Militia Dei: A Central Concept for the Religious Ideas of the Early Crusades and the German
Rolandslied by Horst Richter
Christian and Moors in
Ay Jherusalem! by Donna M. Rogers
The Letter of Jean Sarrasin, Crusader by Jeanette M. A. Beer
Crusade Propaganda in the Epic Cycles of the Crusade by Robert Francis Cook
The Siege of Jerusalem As a Crusading Poem by Mary Hamel
Structural Convergence of Pilgrimage and Dream-Vision in Christine de Pizan by Susan Stakel
Isabel of Portugal and the Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Crusade by Charity Cannon Willard
Notes on Contributors
Index
