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Auteur(s) : Galvez, Marisa
Titre(s) : The subject of crusade [Texte imprimé] : lyric, romance, and materials, 1150 to 1500 / Marisa Galvez
Publication : Chicago ; London : the University of Chicago press, 2020
Description matérielle : viii, 302 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23
cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-291) and index
"Marisa Galvez challenges received ideas about medieval lyric poetry and Arthurian
romance at a time when terms like "crusade," "medieval," and "holy war" continue to
be tossed about unexamined in popular media in relation to Islamist fundamentalism.
"The Subject of Crusade" offers a more complex view of crusade and holy war, arguing
that vernacular crusade lyric and romance of the twelfth through fourteenth centuries
and related visual artworks of the fifteenth century can tell us a different story
if we read them as literary texts as much as historical documents. Placing chronicles
and knightly handbooks in conversation with confessional and pastoral texts, she identifies
a "crusade idiom" that emerged out of a conflict between what European poet/crusaders
saw as their pious duty as Christian soldiers, on the one hand, and their earthly
duties toward their clans, on the other. How, Galvez asks, does a Christian soldier
articulate a sincere intention to go on a crusade while responsibilities toward family
and fields at home intervene? Put another way: How does one affirm an intention to
physically suffer in Syria in order to help save the Holy Land? Or how do courtly
concerns differ for a Frankish knight in faraway Cyprus versus a lord in the relative
security of Champagne? By placing crusade love lyric and romances in dialogue with
pastoral and confessional documents, Galvez is able to read the conventions and tropes
across genres usually kept separate as writers and artists respond to historical and
moral problems of the day. The book gives a different picture of how lay people of
the period thought about crusading"
Sujet(s) : Croisades -- Dans la littérature
Poésie médiévale -- Thèmes, motifs
Croisades -- Dans l'art
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226693217. - ISBN 022669321X. - ISBN 9780226693354. - ISBN 022669335X. -
ISBN 9780226693491 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46558799z
Notice n° :
FRBNF46558799
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: The Courtly Crusade Idiom ; The Unrepentant Crusader: The Figure of
the Separated Heart ; Idiomatic Movement and Separation in Middle High German and
Occitan Crusade Departure Lyric ; The Heart as Witness: Lyric and Romance ; Lancelot
as Unrepentant Crusader in the Perlesvaus ; Three Ways of Describing a Crusader-Poet:
Adjacency, Genre-Existence, and Performative Reconfigurations ; The Feast of the
Pheasant as Courtly Crusade Idiom ; Conclusion:Toward a More Complex View of Crusade.
