Autor: Katherine Katherine Smith

The monastic life, traditionally considered as an area of withdrawal from the world, is here shown to be shaped by metaphors of war, and to be actively engaged with battle in the world outside. An ex …

A new investigation into the twelfth-century accounts of the First Crusade, showing their complex relationship with the Bible. The Bible exerted an enormous influence on the crusading movement: it pr …

New insights into interpretive problems in the history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. The articles in this volume of the Haskins Society Journal take the reader fr …

An extremely interesting and important book… makes an important contribution to the history of medieval monastic spirituality in a formative period, whilst also fitting into wider debates on the or …