Suzanne M. Yeager

Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An original study of the political, religious and literary uses of representations of the holy city in the fourteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780521877923
• ISBN-10: 052187792X
• Artikelnr.: 24927016

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: texts and contexts
1. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem: three accounts by English authors
2. Craving heritage: portrayals of Richard I and the English quest for Jerusalem in Richard, Coeur de Lion
3. The crusade of the soul in The Siege of Jerusalem
4. The Book of Sir John Mandeville: text of pilgrimage and spiritual reform
5. Beyond the celestial and terrestrial Jerusalem: the Promised Land in Western Christendom
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.