Crusading spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, c

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Crusading spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, c

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William J. Purkis

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Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land & Iberia, c.1095–c.1187

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• Purkis, William J

Subject

• Crusades -- First, 1096-1099
• Crusades -- Second, 1147-1149

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eng

Summary

For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took religious vows, crusaders were repeatedly depicted as being driven by a desire to imitate Christ and to live according to the values of the primitive Church. This book argues that the significance of these descriptions has yet to be fully appreciated, and suggests that the origins and early development of crusading should be studied within the context of the `reformation' of professed religious life in the twelfth century, whose leading figures [such as St Bernard of Clairvaux] advocated the pursuit of devotional undertakings that were modelled on the lives of Christ and his apostles. It also considers topics such as the importance of pilgrimage to early crusading ideology and the relationship between the spirituality of crusading and the activities of the Military Orders, offering a revisionist assessment of how crusading ideas adapted and evolved when introduced to the Iberian peninsula in c.1120. In so doing, the book situates crusading within a broader context of changes in the religious culture of the medieval West. Dr WILLIAM PURKIS is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham.--

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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks