TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elias,Marcel
TI  - English literature and the crusades: anxieties of holy war, 1291-1453 
T2  - Cambridge studies in medieval literature
SN  - 9781108935463 (ebook)
AV  - PR321 .E45 2024
U1  - 820.9/358207 23/eng/20240314
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Romances, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English literature
KW  - Middle English, 1100-1500
KW  - Crusades in literature
KW  - Emotions in literature
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianity and other religions
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Sep 2024)
N2  - The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) witnessed the production of a substantial corpus of Middle English crusade romances. Marcel Elias places these romances in dialogue with multifarious European writings to offer a novel account of late medieval crusade culture: as ambivalent and self-critical, animated by tensions and debates, and fraught with anxiety. These romances uphold ideals of holy war while expressing anxieties about issues as diverse as God's endorsement of the crusading enterprise, the conversion of Christians to Islam, the sinfulness of crusaders, and the morality of violence. Reinvigorating debates in medieval postcolonialism, drawing on emotion studies, and excavating a rich multilingual archive, this book is a major contribution to the cultural history of the crusades. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108935463
ER  -