Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology

by M Cecilia Gaposchkin and M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how public worship was deployed, and how prayers and masses absorbed the ideals and priorities of crusading. Placing religious texts and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501705156
• ISBN13: 9781501705151
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher