Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137-1336

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Linda Paterson

Singing the Crusades

French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137-1336

Linda Paterson

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English

D.S. Brewer
16 April 2021

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history; Crusades

A full-scale survey of crusading lyrics in Old French and Occitan. The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse mass of reactions in the medieval West. While Latin sources provide official versions of its preaching, organisation and events, the vernacular lyrics of the troubadours and trouveres present a secular perspective, through a cornucopia of on-the-spot responses in France, Occitania, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Cyprus, Syria and Greece.

This book constitutes the first comprehensive, modern analysis of Old French and Occitan lyric texts relating to the crusades. It brings out their full range, from propaganda for the crusades, to criticisms of crusading and crusaders through vituperation, humour or cynicism, to their use as apretext for political or personal wrangling. It also shows how they shed light on many aspects of medieval life, among them chivalric and courtly values (often in tension with clerical ones), regional politics, sexual behaviour, personal experiences of crusading and captivity, the complex interaction of Christians, Greeks and Muslims, and bafflement in the face of failure and God's imponderable purposes.

By: Linda Paterson
Imprint: D.S. Brewer
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781843846000
ISBN 10: 1843846004
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 16 April 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

LINDA PATERSON is Professor Emerita at Warwick University.

Reviews for Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137-1336

This work is a first-rate critical essay cum edition of crusade poetry that brings this neglected genre to the public eye and offers insightful historical context for a large corpus of medieval songs never before analyzed together. . . . It offers a gold mine of data and analyses and promises to become part of the critical canon in very short order. H-NET This synthetic and wide-ranging survey of lyric crusade poetry is accompanied by an impressive digital sourcebook. Both should prove tremendous resources for those teaching and researching the crusades and medieval Latin and vernacular literary traditions. SEHEPUNKTE Paterson succeeds in composing a readable, yet richly documented account of the crusades in the medieval lyric imagination. Both non-academic and scholarly readers of medieval literature and history should be indebted to Linda Paterson for both the book and the website. H-FRANCE