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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Crusading"”.
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Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama
… generally encouraged early modern resurgences of crusading rhetoric, I explore how Fulke Greville’s (1554-1628), Thomas Goffe’s (1591-1629), and Roger Boyle’s (1621-1679) work may, instead, be read as a response to culturally influenced portrayals of Turks on early modern English commercial and …
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B. D. Butler and the Crusading Years of 'Prairie Farmer' - Wls
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… reads some Middle English poetry in terms of crusading, and it argues that the most prominent English poets, namely Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Gower, were against the later crusades regardless of their target. However, since the anti-crusade voice of Gower and Langland has …
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Vengeance and the crusades 1095-1216
… in general as well as the more specific idea of crusading as an act of vengeance. The concept of vengeance was intimately connected with the ideas of justice and punishment. It was perceived as an expression of power, embedded in a series of commonly understood emotional responses, and also as a …
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The Emotional Rhetoric of the Later Crusades: Romance in England after 1291
… of emotional rhetoric in the Middle English crusading romances. It argues that the prevailing climate after the fall of Acre in 1291 and the evacuation of the last Christian strongholds in the Levant was characterized by a mixture of enduring enthusiasm and fascination, but also of concern, …
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"Imagined crusaders: the ""Livre d'Eracles"" in fifteenth century Burgundian collections"
… cycles of images innovatively re-envisioned the crusading past in the guise of the fifteenth-century present for a group of men who responded to the fifteenth-century renewed crusade fervor caused by the contemporary Ottoman invasions with varying levels of commitment. Refining the conception of …
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The Rise and Fall of the Crudsades Through Vatican Political Hegemony
… origin, this thesis will conclude that Crusading became obsolete by the mid-sixteenth century. When the Crusades did end. it was not in a final climatic battle rather a series secular of border wars between Empires. The Vatican lost the ability to mobilize soldiers yet the rhetoric of a …
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The Great Men of Christendom: The Failure of the Third Crusade
… in the Holy Land. For European Christians, crusading was a religious obligation, and once their vows were fulfilled, they no longer had any desire to remain in the Levant. Although the Crusaders did score some short-term victories over their Muslim adversaries, the Christian presence in the …
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Freedom, Independence, Peace: Revisiting the Foreign Policy of John Quincy Adams
… America to be a moral example rather than a crusading imperial power; 2) discard ambitions for extraregional hegemony and prudently withdraw from entangling alliances; and 3) make peace, rather than catharsis, the principal goal of American foreign policy by prioritizing only vital national …
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The role of castles in the political and military history of the Crusader States and the Levant 1187 to 1380
… and urban fortifications vital to the entire crusading movement, and they will therefore be discussed in great detail, with reference to a variety of contemporary chronicles and documents. In addition, extensive use will be made of archaeological and architectural evidence, for the design of …
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"Ne canstu me noght knowe?": Disguise, Exile and Medieval Romance
… Josiane and Bevis parallels the imperialist crusading ethos: Josiane is “Other” enough to justify conquering her, and that Otherness is performed with her blackface disguise. At the same time, she is safe and “normal” enough to marry (as demonstrated by her whiteness) and to incorporate into …
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<b><em>Black Beauty</em></b> as Antebellum Slave Narrative
… as entertaining, Black Beauty has a strong crusading purpose: Anna Sewell herself said she wrote to improve the treatment of horses. This study springs from an intuitive notion. While reading the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I could not shake a "curiously different sense …
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Localizing the Holy Land: The Visual Culture of Crusade in England, circa 1140-1307
Broadly defining crusading as both a physical act and a spiritual goal, this is a diachronic study of the impact of the crusade movement and devotion to the holy city of Jerusalem on English visual culture, religious imagination and identity. The crusade movement concurrently formed dynamic …
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Smokey the ‘Praying’ Bear: Changing Cultural Attitudes Towards Nature in America During the Postwar Era, 1948 - 1958
… his followers are devout, and they are currently crusading for the protection of their beloved forests.
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The warhorse and military service under Edward III
… of knightly culture, such as the tournament and crusading. On a more general level, there has been much discussion of the impact of war on society and the economy, and on the influence of wartime conditions on the development of parliament. It is not so much war that has been neglected, as the …