The Knight, the Cross, and the Song. Stefan Vander Elst
The Knight, the Cross, and the Song
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The Knight, the Cross, and the Song
CRUSADE PROPAGANDA AND CHIVALRIC LITERATURE, 1100–1400
Stefan Vander Elst
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Philadelphia
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For Cynthia and Leo
CONTENTS
PART I. THE CHANSON DE GESTE IN CRUSADE PROPAGANDA
3. Robert of Reims’s Historia Iherosolimitana
4. The Old French Crusade Cycle: Crusade as a War of Families
PART II. CHIVALRIC ROMANCE IN CRUSADE PROPAGANDA
5. The Challenge of Romance and the Thirteenth Century
6. Nicolaus of Jeroschin and the Fourteenth-Century Crusade
7. Adventure and the East in the Second Old French Crusade Cycle
8. The Ideal Crusader in La Prise d’Alixandre
ABBREVIATIONS
| BB | Cook, Robert Francis, ed. Le Bâtard de Bouillon: Chanson de geste. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1972. Translation mine. |
| BS | Boca, Louis N., ed. Li Romans de Bauduin de Sebourc, IIIe roy de Jhérusalem: Poème du XIVe siècle publié pour la première fois d’après les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale. 2 vols. Valenciennes: B. Henry, 1841. Translation mine. |
| C | Myers, Geoffrey M., ed. The Old French Crusade Cycle. Vol. 5, Les Chétifs. University: University of Alabama Press, 1981. Translation mine. |
| CA | Nelson, Jan A., ed. The Old French Crusade Cycle. Vol. 4, La Chanson d’Antioche. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. Translation taken from Susan B. Edgington and Carol Sweetenham, trans. and eds. The Chanson d’Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. |
| CCGB | Hippeau, C., ed. La Chanson du Chevalier au Cygne et de Godefroid de Bouillon. Paris: A. Aubry, 1874–1877. |
| CJ | Thorp, Nigel R., ed. The Old French Crusade Cycle. Vol. 6, La Chanson de Jérusalem. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992. Translation mine. |
| CR | Bédier, Joseph, ed. La Chanson de Roland. Paris: L’édition d’Art H. Piazza, 1960. Translation taken from Glyn S. Burgess, trans. and ed. The Song of Roland. London: Penguin, 1990. |
| CTP | Peter of Duisburg. Chronica Terre Prussie. In Scriptores rerum Prussicarum: Die Geschichtsquellen der preussischen Vorzeit bis zum Untergange der Ordensherrschaft, ed. Theodor Hirsch, Max Töppen, and Ernst Strehlke, 1:21–219. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1861. Translation mine. |
| GDC | Gautier de Tournay. L’histore de Gille de Chyn by Gautier de Tournay. Ed. Edwin B. Place. New York: AMS Press, 1970. Translation mine. |
| GF | Hill, Rosalind, trans. and ed. Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1962. |
| HFC | Robert of Reims. Robert the Monk’s History of the First Crusade: Historia Iherosolimitana. Trans. and ed. Carol Sweetenham. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. |
| HI | Robert of Reims. The Historia Iherosolimitana of Robert the Monk. Ed. D. Kempf and M. G. Bull. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. |
| KVP |
Nicolaus von Jeroschin. Di Krônike von Prûzinlant. In Scriptores rerum Prussicarum: Die Geschichtsquellen der preussischen Vorzeit bis zum Untergange der Ordensherrschaft, ed. Theodor Hirsch, Max Töppen, and Ernst Strehlke, 1:303–624. Leipzig: |