Overview
- Considers the perception of the supernatural by crusaders
- Uses a comparative approach to explore different cultural and religious groups
- Studies environmental history, frontier cultures, and narratives of travel, warfare, and pilgrimage
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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Keywords
- Literature and the Environment
- The Crusades
- frontier cultures
- narratives of travel
- warfare
- pilgramage
- Literature and Space
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jessalynn L. Bird is Associate Professor of Humanistic Studies at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, USA, and a Regional Fellow of the Medieval Institute. She has published widely on the crusades, medieval heresy, and the activities of individuals trained in Paris as preachers, reformers, and judges delegate. She is co-editor, with Edward Peters and the late James Powell, of Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation, Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291; with G.E.M. Lippiatt, Crusading Europe: Essays in Honour of Christopher J. Tyerman (2019); with Damian Smith, The Fourth Lateran Council and the Crusade Movement: The Impact of Fourth Lateran (1215) on Latin Christendom and the East (2018); and sole editor of The Papacy, Crusade, and Christian-Muslim Relations: Essays in Memory of James M. Powell (2018).
Elizabeth Lapina is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is a co-editor of three volumes: Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, co-edited with Vanina Kopp (2020); The Uses of the Bible in Crusader Sources, co-edited with Nicholas Morton (2017); The Crusades and Visual Culture, co-edited with April Morris, Susanna Throop and Laura Whatley (2015). She is the author of one monograph (Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade (2015) and a number of articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Crusades and Nature
Book Subtitle: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages
Editors: Jessalynn L. Bird, Elizabeth Lapina
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58785-6Due: 04 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58788-7Due: 04 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-58786-3Due: 04 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations