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Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade - Elizabeth Lapina

Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade

Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2017
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-06671-4 (ISBN)
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Analyzes how chroniclers of the First Crusade attempted to represent the enterprise as a "holy war." Focuses on accounts of miracles, especially the intervention of saints in the battle of Antioch; explores how the chroniclers related the crusade to biblical events.
In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries. Lapina analyzes the diversity of ways in which the chroniclers tried to justify the First Crusade as a “holy war,” where physical violence could be not just sinless, but salvific.

The book focuses on accounts of miracles reported to have happened in the course of the crusade, especially the miracle of the intervention of saints in the Battle of Antioch. Lapina shows why and how chroniclers used these miracles to provide historical precedent and to reconcile the messiness of history with the conviction that history was ordered by divine will. In doing so, she provides an important glimpse into the intellectual efforts of the chronicles and their authors, illuminating their perspectives toward the concepts of history, salvation, and the East. Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade demonstrates how these narratives sought to position the crusade as an event in the time line of sacred history. Lapina offers original insights into the effects of the crusade on the Western imaginary as well as how medieval authors thought about and represented history.

Elizabeth Lapina is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Contents



Acknowledgments



Introduction

1Eyewitnesses of Miracles

2Supernatural Interventions in the Battle of Antioch: The Origins

3Hostile Appropriations of Byzantine Saints by the Normans of the South

4The Normans of the South: From Scourge of God to Chosen People

5Judas Maccabeus: A Jewish Warrior, a Christian Patriarch, and a Muslim General

6“The West Prepares to Illuminate the East”

Conclusion



Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort University Park
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Christentum
ISBN-10 0-271-06671-7 / 0271066717
ISBN-13 978-0-271-06671-4 / 9780271066714
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