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Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology

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M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
2017
Published by: Cornell University Press
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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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Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

pp. i-vi

Contents

pp. vii-x

List of Illustrations and Maps

pp. xi-xii

Acknowledgments

pp. xiii-xvi

Abbreviations and Citation Conventions

pp. xvii-xxviii

Introduction

pp. 1-15

Preliminaries

pp. 16-28

1. The Militant Eschatology of the Liturgy and the Origins of Crusade Ideology

pp. 29-64

2. From Pilgrimage to Crusade

pp. 65-92

3. On the March

pp. 93-129

4. Celebrating the Capture of Jerusalem in the Holy City

pp. 130-164

5. Echoes of Victory in the West

pp. 165-191

6. Clamoring to God: Liturgy as a Weapon of War

pp. 192-225

7. Praying against the Turks

pp. 226-255

Conclusion

pp. 256-262

Appendices

1. The Liturgy of the 15 July Commemoration

pp. 263-288

2. Comparative Development of the Clamor

pp. 289-308

3. Timeline of Nonliturgical Evidence for Liturgical Supplications

pp. 309-324

Selected Bibliography

pp. 325-338

Index

pp. 339-349
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