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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: knight, the cross, and the song
    sub title: Crusade propaganda and chivalric literature, 1100-1400
  name:
    name part: Vander Elst, Stefan Erik Kristiaan
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 270 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 convince the warriors of western Christianity to participate in the holy war. Vander Elst examines how, across three centuries, historiographical works that served as exhortations for the Crusade sought specifically to appeal to aristocratic interests beyond piety. They did so by appropriating the formal and thematic characteristics of literary genres favored by the knightly class, the chansons de geste and chivalric romance. By using the structure, commonplaces and traditions of chivalric literature, propagandists associated the Crusade with the decidedly secular matters to which arms-bearers were drawn. This allowed them to introduce the mutual obligation between lord and vassal, family honor, the thirst for adventure and even the desire for women as parallel and complementary motivations for Crusade, making chivalric and literary concerns an indelible part of the ideology and practice of holy war.
  note: Stefan Vander Elst.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Crusades
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Propaganda
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Literature in propaganda
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Chansons de geste
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Romances
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: D156.58 .V36 2017
  classification: 909.07
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Middle Ages series
  identifier: 9780812248968
  identifier: 0812248961
  identifier: 2016048012
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161019
    record change date: 20210819123404.0
    record identifier: in00003859189