The Knight, the Cross, and the Song. Stefan Vander Elst

      

      The Knight, the Cross, and the Song

      THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES

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      The Knight, the Cross, and the Song

      CRUSADE PROPAGANDA AND CHIVALRIC LITERATURE, 1100–1400

      Stefan Vander Elst

      UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Philadelphia

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       For Cynthia and Leo

      CONTENTS

       List of Abbreviations

       A Note on Names

       Introduction

       PART I. THE CHANSON DE GESTE IN CRUSADE PROPAGANDA

       1. Pilgrims and Settlers

       2. The Gesta Francorum

       3. Robert of Reims’s Historia Iherosolimitana

       4. The Old French Crusade Cycle: Crusade as a War of Families

       PART II. CHIVALRIC ROMANCE IN CRUSADE PROPAGANDA

       5. The Challenge of Romance and the Thirteenth Century

       6. Nicolaus of Jeroschin and the Fourteenth-Century Crusade

       7. Adventure and the East in the Second Old French Crusade Cycle

       8. The Ideal Crusader in La Prise d’Alixandre

       Conclusion

       Notes

       Works Cited

       Index

       Acknowledgments

      ABBREVIATIONS

BB	Cook, Robert Francis, ed. Le Bâtard de Bouillon: Chanson de geste. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1972. Translation mine.
BS	Boca, Louis N., ed. Li Romans de Bauduin de Sebourc, IIIe roy de Jhérusalem: Poème du XIVe siècle publié pour la première fois d’après les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale. 2 vols. Valenciennes: B. Henry, 1841. Translation mine.
C	Myers, Geoffrey M., ed. The Old French Crusade Cycle. Vol. 5, Les Chétifs. University: University of Alabama Press, 1981. Translation mine.
CA	Nelson, Jan A., ed. The Old French Crusade Cycle. Vol. 4, La Chanson d’Antioche. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. Translation taken from Susan B. Edgington and Carol Sweetenham, trans. and eds. The Chanson d’Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
CCGB	Hippeau, C., ed. La Chanson du Chevalier au Cygne et de Godefroid de Bouillon. Paris: A. Aubry, 1874–1877.
CJ	Thorp, Nigel R., ed. The Old French Crusade Cycle. Vol. 6, La Chanson de Jérusalem. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992. Translation mine.
CR	Bédier, Joseph, ed. La Chanson de Roland. Paris: L’édition d’Art H. Piazza, 1960. Translation taken from Glyn S. Burgess, trans. and ed. The Song of Roland. London: Penguin, 1990.
CTP	Peter of Duisburg. Chronica Terre Prussie. In Scriptores rerum Prussicarum: Die Geschichtsquellen der preussischen Vorzeit bis zum Untergange der Ordensherrschaft, ed. Theodor Hirsch, Max Töppen, and Ernst Strehlke, 1:21–219. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1861. Translation mine.
GDC	Gautier de Tournay. L’histore de Gille de Chyn by Gautier de Tournay. Ed. Edwin B. Place. New York: AMS Press, 1970. Translation mine.
GF	Hill, Rosalind, trans. and ed. Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1962.
HFC	Robert of Reims. Robert the Monk’s History of the First Crusade: Historia Iherosolimitana. Trans. and ed. Carol Sweetenham. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
HI	Robert of Reims. The Historia Iherosolimitana of Robert the Monk. Ed. D. Kempf and M. G. Bull. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013.
KVP	Nicolaus von Jeroschin. Di Krônike von Prûzinlant. In Scriptores rerum Prussicarum: Die Geschichtsquellen der preussischen Vorzeit bis zum Untergange der Ordensherrschaft, ed. Theodor Hirsch, Max Töppen, and Ernst Strehlke, 1:303–624. Leipzig: Скачать книгу 1 2 3 4 5 > В конец