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Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First Crusade / Elizabeth Lapina.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (x, 212 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271073132
  • 0271073136
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Warfare and the miraculous in the chronicles of the First CrusadeDDC classification:
  • 956/.014 23
LOC classification:
  • D161.2 .L37 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Eyewitnesses of miracles -- Supernatural interventions in the Battle of Antioch : the origins -- Hostile appropriations of Byzantine saints by the Normans of the South -- The Normans of the South : from scourge of God to chosen people -- Judas Maccabeus : a Jewish warrior, a Christian patriarch, and a Muslim general -- "The West prepares to illuminate the East."
Summary: "Analyzes how chroniclers of the First Crusade attempted to represent the enterprise as a "holy war." Focuses on accounts of miracles, especially the intervention of saints in the battle of Antioch; explores how the chroniclers related the crusade to biblical events"--Provided by publisher

"Analyzes how chroniclers of the First Crusade attempted to represent the enterprise as a "holy war." Focuses on accounts of miracles, especially the intervention of saints in the battle of Antioch; explores how the chroniclers related the crusade to biblical events"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index.

Eyewitnesses of miracles -- Supernatural interventions in the Battle of Antioch : the origins -- Hostile appropriations of Byzantine saints by the Normans of the South -- The Normans of the South : from scourge of God to chosen people -- Judas Maccabeus : a Jewish warrior, a Christian patriarch, and a Muslim general -- "The West prepares to illuminate the East."

Print version record.

English.