Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century

390 Pages·2016·7.413 MB·English

by  Giles Constable

Crusaders and Crusading in the twelfth
Century
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Crusaders and Crusading in the
twelfth Century
giles Constable
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Constable, giles
Crusaders and crusading in the twelfth century: collected studies
1.Crusades
i. title
940.1’82
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Constable, giles.
Crusaders and crusading in the twelfth century / giles Constable.
p.cm.
includes bibliographical references.
isbn 978-0-7546-6523-6
1.Crusades. i. title.
d157.C764 2008
909.07–dc22
2008023805
isbn 13: 978-0-7546-6523-6 (hbk)
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Abbreviations ix
introduction 1
1 the historiography of the Crusades 3
2 the Cross of the Crusaders 45
3 Medieval Charters as a source for the history of the Crusades 93
4 the financing of the Crusades 117
5 the Place of the Crusader in Medieval society 143
6 the Military orders 165
7 Cluny and the first Crusade 183
8 early Crusading in eastern germany: the Magdeburg Charter of
1107/8 197
9 the three lives of odo arpinus: Viscount of bourges, Crusader,
Monk of Cluny 215
10 the second Crusade as seen by Contemporaries 229
11 two notes on the anglo-flemish Crusaders of 1147-8 301
12 the Crusading Project of 1150 311
13 the fourth Crusade 321
Appendix A: The Terminology of Crusading 349
Appendix B: The Numbering of the Crusades 353
General Index 357
Index of Biblical Citations 373
Index of Papal Documents listed in JL 375
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list of figures
1.1 thomas fuller, History of the Holy Warre (london 1639),
frontispiece 12
1.2 illustration by gustave doré for J. f. Michaud, Histoire des
croisades (Paris 1877) 15
2.1 silos, santo domingo, cloister 58
2.2 sculpture from belval (nancy, Musée municipal) 59
2.3 st albans Psalter, p. 69 (see otto Pächt, C. r. dodwell, francis
wormald, The St. Albans Psalter [studies of the warburg institute
25; london 1960], 9, 73-9, 96, pl.38) 60
2.4 autun Cathedral, tympanum 62
2.5 MS Vat. Lat. 2002, f.1 (Frederick Barbarossa as a crusader) 72
2.6 ste Marie de la règle (limoges, Musée municipal de l’evêché) 74
2.7 window from st denis (bernard de Montfaucon, Les monuments de
la monarchie française, i [Paris 1729], 390, pl. 1) 75
2.8 Stavelot Triptych (New York, J. P. Morgan Library) 76
2.9 MS The Hague, Koninklijke Bibl., 76 F5, f.1 (from St Bertin) 79
2.10 Cressac (Charente) 80
5.1 st albans Psalter, p. 72 (see Pächt/dodwell/wormald, St. Albans
Psalter, 147-52, 163, 164) 148
5.2 Ms dijon, bibliothèque municipale 168, f.4v 151
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