TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bale,Anthony Paul
TI  - The Cambridge companion to the literature of the Crusades
T2  - Cambridge companions to topics
SN  - 9781108672832 (ebook)
AV  - PN56.C735 C36 2019
U1  - 801 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Crusades in literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jan 2019)
N2  - How were the crusades, and the crusaders, narrated, described, and romanticised by the various communities that experienced or remembered them? This Companion provides a critical overview of the diverse and multilingual literary output connected with crusading over the last millennium, from the first writings which sought to understand and report on what was happening, to contemporary Medievalism in which crusading is a potent image of holy war and jihad. The chapters show the enduring legacy of the crusaders' imagery, from the chansons de geste to Walter Scott, from Charlemagne to Orlando Bloom. Whilst the Crusaders' hold on Jerusalem was relatively short-lived, the desire for Jerusalem has had a long afterlife in many cultural contexts and media
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108672832
ER  -