The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187-1192): The Early University of Paris, Biblical Exegesis, and the Coming Apocalypse

by Alexander Marx

This book delivers the first substantial study of the preaching of the Third Crusade (1187-92). It assembles c.200 sermon texts and c.100 manuscripts, to understand the explosive dynamic of mobilization in the Latin West. Dealing with the essential fact that a genre called 'crusade sermon' did not exist, it develops methodological devices for identifying sermons relevant for the crusading purpose. The book contests thus the modern historiography,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004707522
• ISBN13: 9789004707528
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 640 Pages