Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade / Elizabeth Lapina.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lapina, Elizabeth, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Crusades--First, 1096-1099.
• Miracles--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780271073132
• 0271073136

OCLC:

927169061