Crusades and Violence

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvMegan Cassidy-Welch,Australian Catholic University) Cassidy-Welch, Megan (Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Studies Research Program

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How was violence understood and justified during the time of the crusades? This book argues that although just/holy war theory has long provided the framework for explaining crusading violence, cultural history gives us deeper insights into the meaning and conduct of medieval crusading warfare. Using a range of sources including histories, letters, and material culture from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, this book provides fresh insights into medieval violence and the history of the crusades. It shows how violence was debated, defined, worried about, celebrated, and condemned, and that the boundaries of legitimate and illegitimate conduct in crusading warfare were constantly and consciously tested.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-06-30
Mått114 x 178 x 8 mm
Vikt110 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePast Imperfect
Antal sidor104
FörlagArc Humanities Press
ISBN9781641894753

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Cassidy-Welch [...] concentrates on the 12th and 13th centuries and employs in her introduction and three chapters a cultural and social framework through the prisms of physical space, the body, emotions, and memory. Topics include the channeling of violence through the Peace and Truce of God movements, piety and spiritual benefits as distinctive elements of crusading, the protection of missionaries and other Christians as justifications for violence, the feminization of sacred spaces, supposedly promised lands as the locations of violence, the othering of enemies, the corporality of both inflictors and victims of violence, retributive violence, Christ-centered self-mortification and martyrdom, and the interplay of violence and religious apocalypticism. Crusade violence had various psychological, celebratory, communicative, and performative dimensions. Cassidy-Welch even attempts to link her inquiries with a brief consideration of the echoes of crusade violence in medievalism since the 19th century. Her aim is to avoid overarching, summative conclusions while prompting further inquiry and discussion.