Crusade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Benjamin David.

Contributor:

Weber, Benjamin, 1981- editor.

Series:

Crusades - Subsidia Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--Words for.

Crusades.

Language and languages--Etymology--History.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The word 'crusade' covers today a wide variety of meanings in most European languages. The link between these uses and the historical phenomenon labelled as 'crusade', by historians is often very narrow and particularly changing. Understanding the real meaning of the word 'crusade', its connotations and implications, and thus the conscious or unconscious intentions of its uses requires a precise knowledge of the historical evolutions of the word, from its first appearance in the 13th century until nowadays. This book offers the first comprehensive view of the historical construction of the meaning of the word 'crusade' through comparative perspectives from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Its 11 articles, introduction and conclusion examine different uses of the word, in a single language or within a specific context, and analyze each of them as a different conceptualization of the crusading phenomenon. The book explains the progressive widening of the meaning of the term, from a military expedition to Jerusalem to the most metaphorical uses. It demonstrates the differences between the connotations of the word in various languages and cultures and, thus, the variety of its possible uses. It insists on the reluctance and reticence that 'crusade' has always provoked since the Middle Ages, precisely because the conceptualization it implied was not shared by all. The book will be of interest for crusade scholars and for diachronic linguists, but also for anyone interested in understanding better modern discourses and references to the 'crusade' by politicians, activists, and journalists, through a precise inquiry on the historical developments of the word and the variety of its meanings"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. From Kriuzvart to Kreuzzug: German words for crusade and their usage from the 13th to the 18th centuries

3. Some notes on the history of crociata in the Italian language

4. Krucjata, wyprawa krzyżowa, krzyżowcy, krzyżacy: A short outline of Polish crusading terminology and crusade rhetoric

5. Croisade : Sens et usages entre deux rives encore opposées

6. Histoire du mot croisade dans le Dictionnaire de l'Académie française: Un chassé-croisé sémantique et une construction lexicographique tardive

7. Croisade(s) et dictionnaires français: une étude diachronique (XVIIe-XXe siècle)

8. Crucifixion, cross and crusade: Crusading terminology in Old French crusading chansons de geste

9. Crusading against France, 1789-1815

10. Lutter contre l'immoralité: une « croisade morale »? : l'exemple des ligues de vertu sous les débuts de la Troisième République

11. "The last crusade"? The Italian public opinion in front of the conquest of Jerusalem in 1917

12. Crusade(s) reloaded: On the ideological use of a polymetaphor in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

13. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781003861713

1003861717

9781003371144

1003371140

OCLC:

1401052397

Publisher Number:

10.4324/9781003371144

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access.