Marcel Elias

English Literature and the Crusades

Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453

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Produktbeschreibung

"This is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history and literature of the crusades, Christian-Muslim relations, and emotion studies. It builds on insights from postcolonial theory and emotion studies to offer a novel account of late medieval crusade culture: as ambivalent, self-critical, and fraught with anxiety"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108832212
• ISBN-10: 1108832210
• Artikelnr.: 69823540

Autorenporträt

Marcel Elias is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. His essays on crusade literature, European representations of Muslims and Islam, and the history of emotions have appeared or are forthcoming in The Review of English Studies, Speculum, New Medieval Literatures, Studies in Philology, and elsewhere.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Royal emotions, blasphemy, and (dis)unity in The Siege of Milan and The Sultan of Babylon
2. Hopes and anxieties of conversion in the Otuel romances
3. Women, God, and other crusading motives in Guy of Warwick
4. Therapeutic crusading and excessive violence in The Siege of Jerusalem and Richard Coeur de Lion
Conclusion.