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Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade / Elizabeth Lapina.
LIBRA D161.2 .L37 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lapina, Elizabeth, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crusades--First, 1096-1099.
- Crusades.
- Miracles--History.
- Miracles.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 212 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "Analyzes how chroniclers of the First Crusade attempted to represent the enterprise as a "holy war." Focuses on accounts of miracles, especially the intervention of saints in the battle of Antioch; explores how the chroniclers related the crusade to biblical events"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Eyewitnesses of miracles
- Supernatural interventions in the Battle of Antioch : the origins
- Hostile appropriations of Byzantine saints by the Normans of the South
- The Normans of the South : from scourge of God to chosen people
- Judas Maccabeus : a Jewish warrior, a Christian patriarch, and a Muslim general
- "The West prepares to illuminate the East".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271066707
- 0271066709
- OCLC:
- 898909974
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