Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World

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David A. Wacks

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English

University of Toronto Press
09 August 2019

Military history; Archaeology; Medieval European archaeology; Battles & campaigns

Series: Toronto Iberic

Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to this day. Narratives of crusades powerfully shaped European thinking about the East and continue to influence the representation of interactions between Christian and Muslim states in the region.

The crusade, a French idea that gave rise to Iberian, North African, and Levantine campaigns, was very much a Mediterranean phenomenon. French and English authors wrote itineraries in the Holy Land, chronicles of the crusades, and fanciful accounts of Christian knights who championed the Latin Church in the East. This study aims to explore the ways in which Iberian authors imagined their role in the culture of crusade, both as participants and interpreters of narrative traditions of the crusading world from north of the Pyrenees.

By: David A. Wacks
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781487505011
ISBN 10: 1487505019
Series: Toronto Iberic
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 09 August 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David A. Wacks is a professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.

Reviews for Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World

"""David Wacks describes admirably how the complex connections and imagination of distant geography brought literary figures, tropes, and ideals into surprising contact, allowing us to see the worlds of these five literary works in new ways. Each of the chapters presents a readable and compelling view of the fictional work set in a broad social and narrative history of the crusades and crusade ideologies that drove both fictional production and real political decisions."" -- Adam Franklin-Lyons, Marlboro College * <em>Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching</em> *"