Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how public worship was deployed, and how prayers and masses absorbed the ideals and priorities of crusading. Placing religious texts and practices within the larger narrative of crusading, Gaposchkin offers a new understanding of a crucial facet in the culture of holy war.
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Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction Preliminaries Chapter 1. Liturgy and the Origins of Crusade Ideology Chapter 2. From Pilgrimage to Crusade Chapter 3. On the March Chapter 4. Celebrating the Capture of Jerusalem in the Holy City Chapter 5. Echoes of Victory in the West Chapter 6. Clamoring to God: Liturgy as a Weapon of War Chapter 7. Praying against the Turks Conclusion
Circa l’autore
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Making of Saint Louis and the coeditor of The Sanctity of Louis IX: Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres.
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