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This study reads some Middle English poetry in terms of crusading, and it argues that the most prominent English poets, namely Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Gower, were against the later crusades regardless of their target. However, since the anti-crusade voice of…

Using the lenses of collective memory and medievalism, this study examines the rise and fall of crusader medievalism in Britain over one hundred and twenty years from the publication of Sir Walter Scott's famous novel set in the Third Crusade, The Talisman (1825), to the end of …

In this dissertation I examine the relationship between the primarily monastic devotion to the cross and the crucified Christ and crusade preaching. My primary sources for this study are sermons, letters, and devotional works on the cross from 1050 to 1215 written by monks, nuns…

This project explores uses of Christo-mimetic crusading rhetoric by the papacy and Iberian authors from 1095 until the fall of Jerusalem (1187). Starting with Urban II's (1088–99) address at the Council of Clermont (1095), the papacy upheld that salvific warfare served as a genu…