The knight, the cross, and the song : Crusade propaganda and chivalric literature, 1100-1400 /

This volume offers a new perspective on the driving forces of crusading in the period 1100-1400. Although religious devotion has long been identified as the primary motivation of those who took the cross, Stefan Vander Elst argues that it was by no means the only focus of the texts written to convin...

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