ISBN:
9781501707971
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9781501705151
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9781501755286
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (378 p.)
Keywords:
Specific wars and campaigns
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Europe
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Middle East
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c 1000 CE to c 1500
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crusade, liturgical history, crusades history, Latin Christians, medieval religious culture, Christian identity, culture of holy war, Kingdom of Jerusalem, medieval religious rituals, the crusaders’ cross, liturgy of warfare
Abstract:
Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how public worship was deployed, and how prayers and masses absorbed the ideals and priorities of crusading. Placing religious texts and practices within the larger narrative of crusading, Gaposchkin offers a new understanding of a crucial facet in the culture of holy war
Note:
English
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