Literature of the Crusades (EPDF) von Simon Thomas Parsons

An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades.

Introduction - Ruth Harvey and Simon Thomas Parsons
'Claruit Ibi Multum Dux Lotharingiae': The Development of the Epic Tradition of Godfrey of Bouillon and the Bisected Muslim - Simon John
Reflecting and Refracting Reality: The Use of Poetic Sources in Latin Accounts of the First Crusade - Carol Sweetenham
Emotions and the 'Other': Emotional Characterisations of Muslim Protagonists in Narratives of the Crusades (1095-1192) - Stephen J. Spencer
A Unique Song of the First Crusade? New Observations on the Hatton 77 Manuscript of theSiège d'Antioche - Simon Thomas Parsons
Crusade Songs and the Old French Literary Canon - Luca Barbieri
Wielding the Cross: Crusade References in Cerverí de Girona and Thirteenth-Century Catalan Historiography - Miriam Cabre
'voil ma chançun a la gent fere oïr': An Anglo-Norman Crusade Appeal (London, BL Harley 1717, fol. 251v) - Anna Radaelli
Richard the Lionheart: The Background to'Ja nus homs pris' - Charmaine Lee
Charles of Anjou: Crusaders and Poets - Jean Dunbabin
Remembering the Crusaders in Cyprus: the Lusignans, the Hospitallers and the 1191 Conquest of Cyprus in Jean d'Arras'sMélusine - Helen J. Nicholson
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