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Author | : Suzanne M. Yeager |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2008-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052187792X |
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An original study of the political, religious and literary uses of representations of the holy city in the fourteenth century.
Author | : Suzanne M. Yeager |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages |
ISBN | : 9780511453595 |
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During the early medieval period, crusading brought about new ways of writing about the city of Jerusalem in Europe. By creating texts that embellished the historical relationship between the Holy City and England, English authors endowed their nation with a reputation of power and importance. In Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative, Suzanne Yeager identifies the growth of medieval propaganda aimed at rousing interest in crusading, and analyses how fourteenth-century writers refashioned their sources to create a substantive (if fictive) English role in the fight for Jerusalem. Centring on medieval identity, this study offers assessments of some of the fourteenth century's most popular works, including English pilgrim itineraries, political treatises, the romances Richard, Coeur de Lion and The Siege of Jerusalem, and the prose Book of Sir John Mandeville. This study will be an essential resource for the study of medieval literary history, travel, crusade, and the place of Jerusalem.
Author | : Tamar M. Boyadjian |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2018-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 150173086X |
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Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in the book of Lamentations, which mourns the destruction of Jerusalem; in Arabic, this genre is known as the ritha al-mudun. In The City Lament, Tamar M. Boyadjian traces the trajectory of the genre across the Mediterranean world during the period commonly referred to as the early Crusades (1095–1191), focusing on elegies and other expressions of loss that address the spiritual and strategic objective of those wars: Jerusalem. Through readings of city laments in English, French, Latin, Arabic, and Armenian literary traditions, Boyadjian challenges hegemonic and entrenched approaches to the study of medieval literature and the Crusades. The City Lament exposes significant literary intersections between Latin Christendom, the Islamic caliphates of the Middle East, and the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia, arguing for shared poetic and rhetorical modes. Reframing our understanding of literary sources produced across the medieval Mediterranean from an antagonistic, orientalist model to an analogous one, Boyadjian demonstrates how lamentations about the loss of Jerusalem, whether to Muslim or Christian forces, reveal fascinating parallels and rich, cross-cultural exchanges.
Author | : Katherine Pangonis |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474614108 |
Download Queens of Jerusalem Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unlikely trio - including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They could not resist Saladin, but, if they were lucky, they could negotiate terms that would save the lives of the city's inhabitants. Queen Sibylla was the last of a line of formidable female rulers in the Crusader States of Outremer. Yet for all the many books written about the Crusades, one aspect is conspicuously absent: the stories of women. Queens and princesses tend to be presented as passive transmitters of land and royal blood. In reality, women ruled, conducted diplomatic negotiations, made military decisions, forged alliances, rebelled, and undertook architectural projects. Sibylla's grandmother Queen Melisende was the first queen to seize real political agency in Jerusalem and rule in her own right. She outmanoeuvred both her husband and son to seize real power in her kingdom, and was a force to be reckoned with in the politics of the medieval Middle East. The lives of her Armenian mother, her three sisters, and their daughters and granddaughters were no less intriguing. The lives of this trailblazing dynasty of royal women, and the crusading Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, are the focus of Katherine Pangonis's debut book. In QUEENS OF JERUSALEM she explores the role women played in the governing of the Middle East during periods of intense instability, and how they persevered to rule and seize greater power for themselves when the opportunity presented itself.
Author | : Annette Hoffmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9789004226258 |
Download Jerusalem as Narrative Space Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jerusalem, in her central role for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, became the setting for - or even the protagonist of - oral, written and pictorial narratives. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to entanglements between the city, as a continuously redefined space, and its narratives.
Author | : Peter W. Edbury |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351892428 |
Download The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a complete collection in modern English of the key texts describing Saladin’s conquest of Jerusalem in October 1187 and the Third Crusade, which was Christendom’s response to the catastrophe. The largest and most important text in the book is a translation of the fullest version of the Old French Continuation of William Tyre for the years 1184-97. This key medieval narrative poses problems for the historian in that it achieved its present form in the 1240s, though it clearly incorporates much earlier material. Professor Edbury's authoritative introduction, notes and maps help interpretation of this and other contemporary texts which are included in this volume, making it an invaluable resource for teachers and students of the crusades.
Author | : Sharan Newman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2014-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113727865X |
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"A fresh and highly accessible history of the Holy Lands during the Middle Ages, revealing a rich and diverse culture and the fight to save Jerusalem from the Crusaders"--
Author | : Paris O'Donnell |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008 |
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ISBN | : |
Download Narrative Authority and Truth Claims in Late Medieval and Early Modern Accounts of Travel to Jerusalem Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Alan Moore |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1954 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1631491350 |
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New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal Winner of the Audie Award The New York Times bestseller from the author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta finally appears in a one-volume paperback. Begging comparisons to Tolstoy and Joyce, this “magnificent, sprawling cosmic epic” (Guardian) by Alan Moore—the genre-defying, “groundbreaking, hairy genius of our generation” (NPR)—takes its place among the most notable works of contemporary English literature. In decaying Northampton, eternity loiters between housing projects. Among saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a timeline unravels: second-century fiends wait in urine-scented stairwells, delinquent specters undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors, laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts singing hymns of wealth and poverty. They celebrate the English language, challenge mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon their slum as Blake’s eternal holy city in “Moore’s apotheosis, a fourth-dimensional symphony” (Entertainment Weekly). This “brilliant . . . monumentally ambitious” tale from the gutter is “a massive literary achievement for our time—and maybe for all times simultaneously” (Washington Post).
Author | : Bonnie Millar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Siege of Jerusalem in Its Physical, Literary and Historical Contexts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Millar departs from the standard interpretation of The Siege of Jerusalem, an anonymous 14th-century Middle English poem from Yorkshire, as beautifully written but violently anti-Judaic. She shows how it engages some of the important social and religious issues of the day, and how the poet designed