The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades, Volume 1, ed. Anthony Bale (Cambridge University Press, February 2019)

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How were the Crusades, and the crusaders, narrated, described, and romanticised by the various communities that experienced or remembered them? This Companion provides a critical overview of the diverse and multilingual literary output connected with crusading over the last millennium, from the first writings which sought to understand and report on what was happening, to contemporary medievalism, in which crusading is a potent image of holy war and jihad. The chapters show the enduring legacy of the crusaders' imagery, from the chansons de geste to Walter Scott, from Charlemagne to Orlando Bloom. Whilst the crusaders' hold on Jerusalem was relatively short-lived, the desire for Jerusalem has had a long afterlife in many cultural contexts and media.

Introduction -- Anthony Bale

Part I - Genres -- Elizabeth Lapina

The Chanson de geste -- Marianne Ailes

The Troubadours and Their Lyrics -- Linda Paterson

Part II - Contexts and Communities

Rome, Byzantium, and the Idea of Holy War -- Connor Wilson

Women’s Writing and Cultural Patronage -- Helen J. Nicholson

Reading and Writing in Outremer -- Anthony Bale

Hebrew Crusade Literature in Its Latin and Arabic Contexts -- Uri Zvi Shachar

Part III - Themes and Images

The Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem -- Suzanne M. Yeager

Orientalism and the ‘Saracen’ -- Lynn Ramey

Chivalry, Masculinity, and Sexuality -- Matthew M. Mesley

Part IV - Heroes

Saladin and Richard I -- Christine Chism

‘El Cid’ (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) -- Julian Weiss

Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Louis IX of France -- Anne Latowsky

Part V - Afterlives

Romance and Crusade in Late Medieval England -- Robert Rouse

Renaissance Crusading Literature: Memory, Translation, and Adaptation -- Lee Manion

The Crusades and Medievalism -- Louise D’Arcens