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Andrew Jotischky, William J. Purkis
Pilgrimage to shrines and places of particular holiness was a feature of all three major religious traditions in medieval Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. Pilgrims exposed themselves to risk and loss in order to experience the spiritual benefits
Autor:
William J. Purkis
Publikováno v:
Material Religion. 14:433-437
This short essay introduces Material Religion in the Crusading World, a special issue that brings together a group of scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds working on aspects of Latin C...
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William J. Purkis
Publikováno v:
Material Religion. 14:438-453
Drawing on textual evidence from across the Latin West and ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, this paper explores the practice of crusader body-marking, whereby those who “took t...
Autor:
William J. Purkis
Publikováno v:
Material Religion. 13:552-554
In the early thirteenth century the Latin clergyman Jacques de Vitry wrote that “Jerusalem has been chosen and sanctified by God, trodden by His feet, honored by angels and frequented by every peop...
Autor:
William J. Purkis
Publikováno v:
Journal of Medieval History. 40:329-345
This article examines Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum as a repository of memory for the preaching of the Fifth Crusade. It begins with a consideration of what insights Caesarius has to offer historians of the Fifth Crusade on the mise
Autor:
William J Purkis, Matthew Gabriele
Essays on the various manifestations of Charlemagne and his legends.This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier canoni
Autor:
William J. Purkis
Publikováno v:
Journal of Medieval History. 39:100-127
This article is a preliminary investigation into the way the Cistercians of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries conceptualised and contextualised the history of the crusading movement, with a specific focus on the way in which they integrated their
Autor:
William J. Purkis
Publikováno v:
Studies in Church History. 42:54-64
From the time of the proclamation of the First Crusade in 1095 to at least the first decade of the twelfth century, there was an apparently universal understanding amongst the people of Christendom that those who joined the pilgrimage-in-arms that se
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William J. Purkis
Publikováno v:
Studies in Church History. 41:99-108
In his eyewitness account of the First Crusade, Fulcher of Chartres described the shipwreck and drowning of a boatload of crusaders who were bound for the Holy Land in 1097. After the bodies of the dead were recovered, he explained how ‘they discov