La Chanson De Jerusalem

Author : Nigel Thorp
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817305314
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Chanson de Jerusalem written by Nigel Thorp and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When published in its entirety, the Cycle will comprise nine volumes. The text is presented in Old French, with commentary in English. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Carol Sweetenham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317038738
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chanson des Chétifs and Chanson de Jérusalem written by Carol Sweetenham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Crusade was arguably one of the most significant events of the Middle Ages. It was the only event to generate its own epic cycle, the Old French Crusade Cycle. The central trilogy at the heart of the Cycle describes the Crusade from its beginnings to the climactic battle of Ascalon, comprising the Chanson d’Antioche, the Chanson des Chétifs and the Chanson de Jérusalem. This translation of the Chétifs and the Jérusalem accompanies and completes the translation of the Antioche and makes the trilogy available to English readers in its entirety for the first time. The value of the trilogy lies above all in the insight it gives us to medieval perceptions of the Crusade. The events are portrayed as part of a divine plan where even outcasts and captives can achieve salvation through Crusade. This in turn underlies the value of the Cycle as a recruiting and propaganda tool. The trilogy gives a window onto the chivalric preoccupations of thirteenth-century France, exploring concerns about status, heroism and defeat. It portrays the material realities of the era in vivid detail: the minutiae of combat, smoke-filled halls, feasts, prisons and more. And the two newly translated poems are highly entertaining as well, featuring a lubricious Saracen lady not in the first flush of youth, a dragon inhabited by a devil, marauding monkeys, miracles and much more. The historian will find little new about the Crusade itself, but abundant material on how it was perceived, portrayed and performed. The translation is accompanied by an introduction examining the origins of the two poems and their wider place in the cycle. It is supported by extensive footnotes, a comprehensive index of names and places and translations of the main variants.

Author : Tony Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chanson de Jérusalem in Stafford and Oxford written by Tony Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. N. Hillgarth
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888448163
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Text, and Society in Medieval Spain and Northern Europe written by J. N. Hillgarth and published by PIMS. This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carol Sweetenham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317038762
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chanson d'Antioche written by Carol Sweetenham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old-French Chanson d'Antioche has long intrigued historians and literary scholars. Unusually among epic poems, it follows closely a well documented historical event - the First Crusade - and appears to include substantial and genuine historical content. At one time it was believed to be based on an account by an eye-witness, 'Richard the Pilgrim'. Carol Sweetenham and Susan Edgington have combined forces to investigate such claims, and their findings are set out in a comprehensive introduction which, firstly, examines the textual history of the poem from its possible oral beginnings through several re-workings to its present form, achieved early in the thirteenth century. A second chapter assesses the Chanson's value as a source for the crusade, and a third considers its status as a literary text. A complete prose translation follows, the first in English and based on the definitive edition. The Chanson is revealed as a lively narrative, with tales of chivalry, villainy, and even episodes of humour. There are extensive footnotes to the translation, and an appendix provides supplementary material from a different manuscript tradition. There is also a cast list of heroes and villains with biographical information for the 'real' ones and literary analogues for the fictional characters. The Chanson d'Antioche can now be read for enjoyment, and for a whole new perspective on crusading in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Author : Guilelmus (de Tyro)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Godeffroy of Boloyne Or the Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem written by Guilelmus (de Tyro) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Conor Kostick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441126759
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Siege of Jerusalem written by Conor Kostick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the final battle of the First Crusade The most extraordinary siege in medieval history began with the arrival of a Christian army at Jerusalem on the dawn of Tuesday, 6 June, 1099. Other sieges may have lasted longer, involved greater numbers of troops, and deployed more siege engines but nothing else in the entire medieval period compares to the extraordinary journey that the besiegers had made to get to their goal and the heady religious enthusiasm among the troops. This was the culmination of the First crusade, a military pilgrimage that had seen hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children leave their homes in Western Europe, march for three years over thousands of miles, and undergo tremendous hardship to reach their longed-for goal: Jerusalem. No other medieval army had made such a journey and no other army had such a peculiar makeup. There were hundreds of unattached poor women, gathered from the margins of Northern French towns by the charity of the charismatic preacher, Peter the hermit, and given a new direction in their lives through the expedition to Jerusalem. There were farmers who had sold their land and homes, put all their belongings in two-wheeled carts, and marched alongside their oxen. Bards came and earned their keep by composing songs about the events they were witnessing, from songs about the heroic charges of the nobles to bawdy satires on the lax behavior of some of the senior clergy. Naturally, knights and foot soldiers were at the heart of the fighting forces, but even here there was a strange fluidity to the army, with the status of a warrior rising or falling depending on his ability to keep his horse alive and his armor in good order. The Siege of Jerusalem offers a vivid and engaging account of the events of that siege; the key figures, the turning points, the spiritual beliefs of the participants, the deep political rivalries, and the massacre of the inhabitants, which left such a deep scar in the horrified imagination of those who learned about it, that it still evokes passionate feelings nearly a thousand years later.

Author : William (of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Godeffroy of Boloyne; or, The siege and conqueste of Jerusalem written by William (of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilhelm (Tyros, Erzbischof)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Godeffroy of Boloyne, Or, The Siege and Conqueste of Jerusalem written by Wilhelm (Tyros, Erzbischof) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr Carol Sweetenham
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409482758
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chanson d'Antioche written by Dr Carol Sweetenham and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old-French Chanson d'Antioche has long intrigued historians and literary scholars. Unusually among epic poems, it follows closely a well documented historical event – the First Crusade – and appears to include substantial and genuine historical content. At one time it was believed to be based on an account by an eye-witness, 'Richard the Pilgrim'. Carol Sweetenham and Susan Edgington have combined forces to investigate such claims, and their findings are set out in a comprehensive introduction which, firstly, examines the textual history of the poem from its possible oral beginnings through several re-workings to its present form, achieved early in the thirteenth century. A second chapter assesses the Chanson's value as a source for the crusade, and a third considers its status as a literary text. A complete prose translation follows, the first in English and based on the definitive edition. The Chanson is revealed as a lively narrative, with tales of chivalry, villainy, and even episodes of humour. There are extensive footnotes to the translation, and an appendix provides supplementary material from a different manuscript tradition. There is also a cast list of heroes and villains with biographical information for the 'real' ones and literary analogues for the fictional characters. The Chanson d'Antioche can now be read for enjoyment, and for a whole new perspective on crusading in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.