Jerusalem medieval narrative

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Introduction: texts and contexts......Page 13
 Imagining Jerusalem in fourteenth-century England......Page 14
 English pilgrims and the negotiations of Jerusalem travel......Page 16
 English crusading identities: origins and contexts......Page 18
 The holy city as guarantor of sacral identity: the Jerusalem relation......Page 21
 Negotiating the past: remembering Jerusalem, refining history......Page 23
 Virtual travel to Jerusalem in the middle ages......Page 25
 Past scholarly approaches: the context......Page 27
CHAPTER 1 Pilgrimage to Jerusalem: three accounts by English authors......Page 29
 Who were the writers?......Page 32
 Textual community in English pilgrim accounts: sharing the sources......Page 33
 Wey's methodology: creating a user-friendly guide......Page 35
 Writing travel: what to expect on pilgrimage......Page 36
 Writing Jerusalem: memorializing the heart of the pilgrimage......Page 40
 Developing Christian communitas: cultural interactions with the other......Page 46
 Tourism and pilgrimage: situating Jerusalem in later accounts......Page 55
CHAPTER 2 Craving heritage: portrayals of Richard I and the English quest for Jerusalem in Richard, Coer de Lyon......Page 60
 The background of Richard's romance......Page 63
 Richard's historical character and involvement in the Third Crusade......Page 65
 Reinventing the past: the poetic Richard, cannibal, and "Christianissimus rex"......Page 66
 The construction of Richard's Jerusalem relation......Page 75
 The unfavorable portrayal of Philip: questioning French kingship......Page 77
 Ownership of Jerusalem: the test and sign of divine favor......Page 83
 Jerusalem and France as English inheritance......Page 87
CHAPTER 3 The crusade of the soul in The Siege of Jerusalem......Page 90
 Religious identity in the Siege: portraying Jews and Romans creatively......Page 91
 Rome: toward a literal reading of the Siege......Page 93
 Typology and the Christian assimilation of Josephus: crusade as prophecy fulfillment......Page 99
 Shifting cultural identities: from Jerusalem to Rome......Page 102
 Exegetical influences in England: interpreting the historical siege of Jerusalem......Page 104
 The Siege as Devotional and Political Text for Affective Use......Page 114
 Saving the Jewish City, Saving the Christian Soul......Page 118
CHAPTER 4 The Book of Sir John Mandeville: text of pilgrimage and spiritual reform......Page 120
 Textual background: Mandeville's identity and the Book's "English" reception......Page 121
 The role of Jerusalem in the Book: sacred object and religious center......Page 123
 Geographic centrality and its relation to religious devotion......Page 128
 The Book of John Mandeville and regaining the center......Page 130
 Conquering Jerusalem: tactical strategies and the Book......Page 137
 Re-reading Mandeville: the Book as cure for the soul......Page 141
 Pilgrimage and crusade of the soul: the importance of place......Page 144
CHAPTER 5 Beyond the Celestial and Terrestrial Jerusalem: the Promised Land in western Christendom......Page 147
 Guillaume de Deguileville's Jerusalem as an internal destination of private peace......Page 150
 Reifying the Jerusalem pilgrimage: progressing by disposition, transcending landscape......Page 162
 Philippe de Mézières' Jerusalem as an external destination and end to the war......Page 165
Conclusion......Page 176
INTRODUCTION: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS......Page 185
1. PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM: THREE ACCOUNTS BY ENGLISH AUTHORS......Page 189
2. CRAVING HERITAGE: PORTRAYALS OF RICHARD I AND THE ENGLISH QUEST FOR JERUSALEM IN RICHARD, COER DE LYON......Page 196
3. THE CRUSADE OF THE SOUL IN THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM......Page 204
4. THE BOOK OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE: TEXT OF PILGRIMAGE AND SPIRITUAL REFORM......Page 212
5 . BEYOND THE CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL JERUSALEM: THE PROMISED LAND IN WESTERN CHRI STENDOM......Page 223
CONCLUSION......Page 227
PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 231
SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 242
Index......Page 260