English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453

by Marcel Elias

The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) witnessed the production of a substantial corpus of Middle English crusade romances. Marcel Elias places these romances in dialogue with multifarious European writings to offer a novel account of late medieval crusade culture: as ambivalent and self-critical, animated by tensions and debates, and fraught with anxiety. These romances uphold ideals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108832210
• ISBN13: 9781108832212
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"