Literature of the Crusades

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Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 ‘Claruit Ibi Multum Dux Lotharingiae’: The Development of the Epic
Tradition of Godfrey of Bouillon and the Bisected Muslim
2 Reflecting and Refracting Reality: The Use of Poetic Sources in Latin
Accounts of the First Crusade
3 Emotions and the ‘Other’: Emotional Characterizations of Muslim
Protagonists in Narratives of the Crusades (1095–1192)
4 A Unique Song of the First Crusade?: New Observations on the
Hatton 77 Manuscript of the Siège d’Antioche
5 Crusade Songs and the Old French Literary Canon
6 Wielding the Cross: Crusade References in Cerverí de Girona and
Thirteenth-Century Catalan Historiography
7 ‘Voil ma chançun a la gent fere oïr’: An Anglo-Norman Crusade Appeal
(London, BL Harley 1717, fol. 251v)
8 Richard the Lionheart: The Background to Ja nus homs pris
9 Charles of Anjou: Crusaders and Poets
10 Remembering the Crusaders in Cyprus: The Lusignans, the Hospitallers
and the 1191 Conquest of Cyprus in Jean d’Arras’s Mélusine
Bibliography
Index