Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade / Elizabeth Lapina.
Material type: TextPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (x, 212 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780271073132
- 0271073136
- 956/.014 23
- D161.2 .L37 2015eb
"Analyzes how chroniclers of the First Crusade attempted to represent the enterprise as a "holy war." Focuses on accounts of miracles, especially the intervention of saints in the battle of Antioch; explores how the chroniclers related the crusade to biblical events"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index.
Eyewitnesses of miracles -- Supernatural interventions in the Battle of Antioch : the origins -- Hostile appropriations of Byzantine saints by the Normans of the South -- The Normans of the South : from scourge of God to chosen people -- Judas Maccabeus : a Jewish warrior, a Christian patriarch, and a Muslim general -- "The West prepares to illuminate the East."
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English.
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