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[This] is a book that should become compulsory reading for anyone
studying crusading literature or the use of miracles in medieval
narratives. - HISTORY First comprehensive study of miracles in
Crusade narrative, showing how and why they were deployed by their
authors. The medieval Latin Christian narratives of the crusades
are replete with references to miracles, visions and signs.
Mysterious white-clad knights lead crusader armies to victory in
battle, Christ and the saints offer guidance in visions, and great
signs are seen in the skies. However, despite the frequent
appearance of these themes in the sources, and the evident
importance of these ideas to the narratives which describe them,
scholars have often analysed examples in isolation. This book
represents the first far-reaching examination of the miraculous in
crusade narrative, offering an analysis of the role of miracles,
marvels, visions, dreams, signs and augury in narratives of the
crusades of 1096 to 1204 and produced between c.1099 and c.1250. It
argues that the miraculous and its related themes represented a
powerful tool for the authors of crusade narrative because of its
ability to convey divine agency and will, ideas which were central
to the belief held among Latin Christian contemporaries that
crusade was divinely inspired and spiritually salvific. Overall,
the volume demonstrates how the authors of crusade narrative drew
upon various intellectual authorities on the miraculous in the
service of their narrative agendas and reveals how the use of the
miraculous changed as authors were forced to respond to the
challenges of narrating crusade during this period.
First comprehensive study of miracles in Crusade narrative, showing
how and why they were deployed by their authors. The medieval Latin
Christian narratives of the crusades are replete with references to
miracles, visions and signs. Mysterious white-clad knights lead
crusader armies to victory in battle, Christ and the saints offer
guidance in visions, and great signs are seen in the skies.
However, despite the frequent appearance of these themes in the
sources, and the evident importance of these ideas to the
narratives which describe them, scholars have often analysed
examples in isolation. This book represents the first far-reaching
examination of the miraculous in crusade narrative, offering an
analysis of the role of miracles, marvels, visions, dreams, signs
and augury in narratives of the crusades of 1096 to 1204 and
produced between c.1099 and c.1250. It argues that the miraculous
and its related themes represented a powerful tool for the authors
of crusade narrative because of its ability to convey divine agency
and will, ideas which were central to the belief held among Latin
Christian contemporaries that crusade was divinely inspired and
spiritually salvific. Overall, the volume demonstrates how the
authors of crusade narrative drew upon various intellectual
authorities on the miraculous in the service of their narrative
agendas and reveals how the use of the miraculous changed as
authors were forced to respond to the challenges of narrating
crusade during this period.
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