Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology

Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology
ISBN-10
1501707973
ISBN-13
9781501707971
Category
History
Pages
314
Language
English
Published
2017-01-17
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

Description

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 practices within the larger narrative of crusading, Gaposchkin offers a new understanding of a crucial facet in the culture of holy war.

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