Literature of the Crusades

Introduction - Ruth Harvey and Simon Thomas Parsons 'Claruit Ibi Multum Dux Lotharingiae': The Development of the Epic Tradition of Godfrey of Bouillon and the Bisected Muslim - Simon John Reflecting and Refracting Reality: The Use of Poetic Sources in Latin Accounts of the First Crusade - Carol Sweetenham Emotions and the 'Other': Emotional Characterizations of Muslim Protagonists in Narratives of the Crusades (1095-1192) - Stephen J. Spencer A Unique Song of the First Crusade?: New Observations on the Hatton 77 Manuscript of the Siège d'Antioche - Simon Thomas Parsons Crusade Songs and the Old French Literary Canon - Luca Barbieri Wielding the Cross: Crusade References in Cerverí de Girona and Thirteenth-Century Catalan Historiography - Miriam Cabre 'Voil ma chançun a la gent fere oïr': An Anglo-Norman Crusade Appeal (London, BL Harley 1717, fol. 251v) - Anna Radaelli Richard the Lionheart: The Background to Ja nus homs pris - Charmaine Lee Charles of Anjou: Crusaders and Poets - Jean Dunbabin Remembering the Crusaders in Cyprus: The Lusignans, the Hospitallers and the 1191 conquest of Cyprus in Jean d'Arras's Mélusine - Helen J. Nicholson Bibliography Index