| Popis: |
The main findings of the previous chapters are brought together, leading to several overarching conclusions regarding the ways in which emotional language intersected with broader themes, the literary functions emotions performed, continuities and changes in the emotional landscape of crusading, the factors and traditions which influenced chroniclers, and how modern historians should approach the affective registers of historical narratives. Three major conclusions are outlined. Firstly, the traditional approach of simply accepting the emotional language found in crusade narratives as straightforward evidence of protagonists’ lived feelings needs to be supplanted by a methodological framework which deals primarily with textual representation and function. Secondly, the emotional landscape that contemporaries applied to crusading was not unique. Finally, the various religious, social, and political functions that emotions performed in the texts undermine any notion that the crusades took place in an era of emotional immaturity. |
