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The Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century (Paperback)
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The Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century (Paperback)
Series: Crusading in Context
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A new investigation into the twelfth-century accounts of the First
Crusade, showing their complex relationship with the Bible. The
Bible exerted an enormous influence on the crusading movement: it
provided medieval Christians with language to describe holy war,
spiritual models for crusaders, and justifications for conquests in
the East. This book adds tothe growing body of scholarship on the
biblical underpinnings of crusading, offering a reappraisal of the
early twelfth-century narratives of the First Crusade as works of
biblical exegesis rather than simply historical texts. Itrestores
these works and their authors to the context of the monastic and
cathedral schools where the curricula centred on biblical study,
and demonstrates how the crusade's narrators applied familiar
methods of scriptural commentary to the crusade, treating it as a
text which could, like the Bible, be understood through historical,
allegorical, and mystical lenses. These glosses of the First
Crusade, which collectively constitute one of the greatintellectual
achievements of their age, drew upon the Scriptures and earlier
Christian theology, pilgrimage guides, and polemic to construct the
crusade as a new chapter of sacred history. Within this story, the
first crusaders played various biblically inspired roles: as new
Israelites, they wrested the promised land from Muslims cast as new
Canaanites and Babylonians; as new apostles, they reenacted some of
the greatest miracles of the Gospels. By reconstructing the
interpretive processes that made such readings possible, this study
allows us to better appreciate the crusading movement's
relationship to church reform, the apostolic revival, and the
growth of anti-Jewish sentiment in twelfth-century Europe.
KATHERINE ALLEN SMITH is professor of history at the University of
Puget Sound.
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