Narrating the Crusades
Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
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- Author: Lee Manion
- Date Published: June 2014
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107057814
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In Narrating the Crusades, Lee Manion examines crusading's narrative-generating power as it is reflected in English literature from c.1300 to 1604. By synthesizing key features of crusade discourse into one paradigm, this book identifies and analyzes the kinds of stories crusading produced in England, uncovering new evidence for literary and historical research as well as genre studies. Surveying medieval romances including Richard Cœur de Lion, Sir Isumbras, Octavian, and The Sowdone of Babylone alongside historical practices, chronicles, and treatises, this study shows how different forms of crusading literature address cultural concerns about collective and private action. These insights extend to early modern writing, including Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Tamburlaine, and Shakespeare's Othello, providing a richer understanding of how crusading's narrative shaped the beginning of the modern era. This first full-length examination of English crusading literature will be an essential resource for the study of crusading in literary and historical contexts.
Read more- A wide-ranging study showing the continued engagement with the crusades from medieval romances through to Shakespeare
- Demonstrates the importance of individual or private crusading (in addition to large-scale warfare) in English literature and crusading thought
- Proposes a new, formal set of family features for categorizing the genre of the English crusading romance, including the narrative structure of loss and recovery
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- Date Published: June 2014
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107057814
- length: 320 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.58kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. An anti-national Richard Cœur de Lion: associational forms and the English crusading romance
2. Sir Isumbras's '[p]rivy' recovery: individual crusading in the fourteenth century
3. Fictions of recovery in later English crusading romances: Octavian and The Sowdone of Babylone
4. Re-figuring Catholic and Turk: early modern literatures of crusading and the end of the crusading romance
Conclusion
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