Journeys Toward God

Pilgrimage and Crusade

Edited by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur

Book cover: Journeys Toward God

Extent: 241 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Studies in Medieval Culture

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 1992)

ISBN: 9781879288034

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $24.95

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Published in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays explores the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the central role of these enterprises for the history of European society and thought.


Published in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays is drawn from a conference held at the University of Pittsburgh on October 27-28, 1988. The essays explore the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the central role of these enterprises for the history of European society and thought. . . .–from the Preface

Preface by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur Pilgrimage and Crusade Literature by J.G. Davies Pilgrimage and Sacral Power by Robert Worth Frank, Jr. Journeys to the Center of the Earth: Medieval and Renaissance Pilgrimages to Mount Calvary by Dorothea R. French Stephen of Cloyes, Philip Augustus, and the Children's Crusade of 1212 by Gary Dickson Militia Dei: A Central Concept for the Religious Ideas of the Early Crusades and the German Rolandslied by Horst Richter Christian and Moors in Ay Jherusalem! by Donna M. Rogers The Letter of Jean Sarrasin, Crusader by Jeanette M.A. Beer Crusade Propaganda in the Epic Cycles of the Crusade by Robert Francis Cook The Siege of Jerusalem As a Crusading Poem by Mary Hamel Structural Convergence of Pilgrimage and Dream-Vision in Christine de Pizan by Susan Stakel Isabel of Portugal and the Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Crusade by Charity Cannon Willard, Preface by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur
Pilgrimage and Crusade Literature by J. G. Davies
Pilgrimage and Sacral Power by Robert Worth Frank, Jr.
Journeys to the Center of the Earth: Medieval and Renaissance Pilgrimages to Mount Calvary by Dorothea R. French
Stephen of Cloyes, Philip Augustus, and the Children's Crusade of 1212 by Gary Dickson
Militia Dei: A Central Concept for the Religious Ideas of the Early Crusades and the German Rolandslied by Horst Richter
Christian and Moors in Ay Jherusalem! by Donna M. Rogers
The Letter of Jean Sarrasin, Crusader by Jeanette M. A. Beer
Crusade Propaganda in the Epic Cycles of the Crusade by Robert Francis Cook
The Siege of Jerusalem As a Crusading Poem by Mary Hamel
Structural Convergence of Pilgrimage and Dream-Vision in Christine de Pizan by Susan Stakel
Isabel of Portugal and the Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Crusade by Charity Cannon Willard
Notes on Contributors
Index

  • Edited by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur