Narrating the Crusades

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-05781-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 90, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

In Narrating the Crusades, Lee Manion examines crusading's narrative-generating power as it is reflected in English literature from c.1300 to 1604. By synthesizing key features of crusade discourse into one paradigm, this book identifies and analyzes the kinds of stories crusading produced in England, uncovering new evidence for literary and historical research as well as genre studies. Surveying medieval romances including Richard Cœur de Lion, Sir Isumbras, Octavian, and The Sowdone of Babylone alongside historical practices, chronicles, and treatises, this study shows how different forms of crusading literature address cultural concerns about collective and private action. These insights extend to early modern writing, including Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Tamburlaine, and Shakespeare's Othello, providing a richer understanding of how crusading's narrative shaped the beginning of the modern era. This first full-length examination of English crusading literature will be an essential resource for the study of crusading in literary and historical contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manion, Lee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. An anti-national Richard Cœur de Lion: associational forms and the English crusading romance; 2. Sir Isumbras's '[p]rivy' recovery: individual crusading in the fourteenth century; 3. Fictions of recovery in later English crusading romances: Octavian and The Sowdone of Babylone; 4. Re-figuring Catholic and Turk: early modern literatures of crusading and the end of the crusading romance; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Manion, Lee
Lee Manion is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is author of 'The Loss of the Holy Land and Sir Isumbras: Literary Contributions to Fourteenth-Century Crusade Discourse', Speculum 85.1 (2010) and 'Sovereign Recognition: Contesting Political Claims in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and The Awntyrs off Arthure', Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Robert S. Sturges (2011).