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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Table of contents 9 Acknowledgements 11 List of abbreviations 14 Introduction 17 1 Framing the Capetian miracle 29 2 The First Crusade and the new economy of status, 1095–1110 44 3 Suger of Saint-Denis and the ideology of crusade 73 4 Louis VII and the failure of crusade 101 5 Philip Augustus, political circumstance, and crusade 128 Bibliography 157 Index 173 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2016,ISBN:9781526100443,Language:English,OCLC:980549899 Crusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination. For this reason, it can be easy to forget that European rulers were not always eager participants in holy war. The First Crusade was launched in 1095, and yet the first monarch did not join the movement until 1146, when the French king Louis VII took the cross to lead the Second Crusade. One contemporary went so far as to compare the crusades to 'Creation and man's redemption on the cross', so what impact did fifty years of non-participation have on the image and practice of European kingship and the parameters of cultural development? This book considers this

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Author

(dynastia). Kapetyngowie;Naus, James L

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526100450

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Humanities