Literature of the Crusades

An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades.

Introduction - Ruth Harvey and Simon Thomas Parsons'Claruit Ibi Multum Dux Lotharingiae': The Development of the Epic Tradition of Godfrey of Bouillon and the Bisected Muslim - Simon JohnReflecting and Refracting Reality: The Use of Poetic Sources in Latin Accounts of the First Crusade - Carol SweetenhamEmotions and the 'Other': Emotional Characterisations of Muslim Protagonists in Narratives of the Crusades (1095-1192) - Stephen J. SpencerA Unique Song of the First Crusade? New Observations on the Hatton 77 Manuscript of the Siège d'Antioche - Simon Thomas ParsonsCrusade Songs and the Old French Literary Canon - Luca BarbieriWielding the Cross: Crusade References in Cerverí de Girona and Thirteenth-Century Catalan Historiography - Miriam Cabre'voil ma chançun a la gent fere oïr': An Anglo-Norman Crusade Appeal (London, BL Harley 1717, fol. 251v) - Anna RadaelliRichard the Lionheart: The Background to 'Ja nus homs pris' - Charmaine LeeCharles of Anjou: Crusaders and Poets - Jean DunbabinRemembering the Crusaders in Cyprus: the Lusignans, the Hospitallers and the 1191 Conquest of Cyprus in Jean d'Arras's Mélusine - Helen J. NicholsonBibliographyIndex