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Jerusalem Afflicted - Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade (Hardcover)
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Jerusalem Afflicted - Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade (Hardcover)
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On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in
the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King
Philip IV of Spain to undertake a crusade to 'liberate' the Holy
Land. Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a
17th-century Crusade introduces readers to this unique call to arms
with the first-ever edition of the work since its publication in
1631. Aside from an annotated English translation of the sermon,
this book also includes a series of introductory chapters providing
historical context and textual commentary, followed by an anthology
of Spanish crusading texts that testify to the persistence of the
idea of crusade throughout the 17th century. Quaresmius'
impassioned and thoroughly reasoned plea is expressed through the
voice of Jerusalem herself, personified as a woman in bondage. The
friar draws on many of the same rhetorical traditions and
theological assumptions that first launched the crusading movement
at Clermont in 1095, while also bending those traditions to meet
the unique concerns of 17th-century geopolitics in Europe and the
Mediterranean. Quaresmius depicts the rescue of the Holy City from
Turkish abuse as a just and necessary cause. Perhaps more
unexpectedly, he also presents Jerusalem as sovereign Spanish
territory, boldly calling on Philip as King of Jerusalem and Patron
of the Holy Places to embrace his royal duty and reclaim what is
rightly his on behalf of the universal faithful. Quaresmius' early
modern call to crusade ultimately helps us rethink the popular
assumption that, like the chivalry imagined by Don Quixote, the
crusades somehow died along with the middle ages.
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