Crusade and Christendom

Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291

Jessalynn Bird, Edward Peters, James M. Powell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

536 Seiten

2014
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-2313-2 (ISBN)

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Intended for the undergraduate yet also invaluable for teachers and scholars, this book illustrates how the crusade became crucial for defining and promoting the very concept and boundaries of Latin Christendom. It provides translations of and commentaries on key original sources and up-to-date bibliographic materials.

In 1213, Pope Innocent III issued his letter Vineam Domini, thundering against the enemies of Christendom—the "beasts of many kinds that are attempting to destroy the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaoth"—and announcing a General Council of the Latin Church as redress. The Fourth Lateran Council, which convened in 1215, was unprecedented in its scope and impact, and it called for the Fifth Crusade as what its participants hoped would be the final defense of Christendom. For the first time, a collection of extensively annotated and translated documents illustrates the transformation of the crusade movement.

Crusade and Christendom explores the way in which the crusade was used to define and extend the intellectual, religious, and political boundaries of Latin Christendom. It also illustrates how the very concept of the crusade was shaped by the urge to define and reform communities of practice and belief within Latin Christendom and by Latin Christendom's relationship with other communities, including dissenting political powers and heretical groups, the Moors in Spain, the Mongols, and eastern Christians. The relationship of the crusade to reform and missionary movements is also explored, as is its impact on individual lives and devotion. The selection of documents and bibliography incorporates and brings to life recent developments in crusade scholarship concerning military logistics and travel in the medieval period, popular and elite participation, the role of women, liturgy and preaching, and the impact of the crusade on western society and its relationship with other cultures and religions.

Intended for the undergraduate yet also invaluable for teachers and scholars, this book illustrates how the crusades became crucial for defining and promoting the very concept and boundaries of Latin Christendom. It provides translations of and commentaries on key original sources and up-to-date bibliographic materials.

Jessalynn Bird is an independent scholar. Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include The First Crusade and Torture, which are also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. James M. Powell was Professor of Medieval History at Syracuse University and author of the prize-winning Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221 and Albertanus of Brescia: The Pursuit of Happiness in the Early Thirteenth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Editors' Note

Maps

1. The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Thirteenth Century

2. Areas of the Albigensian Crusade in Southern France

3. The Fourth Crusade's Route to Constantinople

4. The Damietta Region of Egypt

5. Progress of the Reconquista in Iberia

6. The Mediterranean Region

Note on Abbreviations and Translation

Introduction: Crusade and Christendom, 1187-1291

1. Gregory VIII, Audita tremendi, 1187

PART I. THE POPE, CRUSADES, AND COMMUNITIES, 1198-1213

2. Innocent III, Post miserabile, 1198

3. Innocent III, Multe nobis attulit, 1199

4. The Lambrecht Rite for Taking the Cross, ca. 1200

5. Innocent III's Response to the Questions of Hubert Walter, 1200-1201

6. Facets of the Fourth Crusade, 1202-1204

7. The Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1229

8. Roman Intercessory Processions, 1212

9. The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212

10. The Children's Crusade, 1212-1213

PART II. CRUSADE AND COUNCIL, 1213-1215

11. Innocent III, Quia maior, 1213

12. Innocent III, Pium et sanctum, 1213

13. An Anonymous Crusade-Recruiting Sermon, ca. 1213-1217

14. Innocent III's Response to the Questions of Conrad of Speyer, Quod iuxta verbum, 1213

15. Roger Wendover on the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215

16. The Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 71, Ad liberandam, 1215

PART III. THE FIFTH CRUSADE, 1213-1221

17. Roger Wendover on Signs and Portents, 1217

18. Letters of Gervase of Prémontré, 1216-1217

19. James of Vitry's Sermon to Pilgrims, 1229-1240

20. The Rhineland Crusaders, 1220

21. Oliver of Paderborn, The Capture of Damietta, ca. 1217-1222

22. Roger Wendover, Three Letters from the East, 1221-1222

23. Two Recruiters in Marseilles, 1224

24. Ibn Wasil on the Frankish Surrender, ca. 1282

PART IV. THE EMPEROR'S CRUSADE, 1227-1229

25. Roger Wendover on the Crusade of Frederick II, ca. 1230

26. Philip of Novara on the Crusade of Frederick II, ca. 1230

27. Frederick II, Letter to Henry III of England, 1229

28. Ibn Wasil (ca. 1282) and Ibn al-Jauzi (ca. 1250) on the Loss of Jerusalem

29. The Letter of Gerold on Antichrist, ca. 1230

PART V. THE BARONS' CRUSADE, 1234-1245

30. Gregory IX, Rachel suum videns, 1234

31. Gregory IX to the Mendicant Orders, Pium et sanctum,1234

32. Matthew Paris on Mendicant Preaching, 1234-1236

33. Lyrics of Thibaut IV of Champagne, ca. 1234-1239

34. Gregory IX to Frederick II, Considerantes olim, 1238

35. Matthew Paris: Richard of Cornwall on Crusade, 1245

36. Matthew Paris on Crusade Financing, 1241

37. Matthew Paris: The Sack of Jerusalem, 1244

38. The First Council of Lyons, 1245

PART VI. THE MONGOL CRUSADES, 1241-1262

39. Henry of Saxony to the Duke of Brabant, 1241

40. Frederick II to the Christian Princes, 1241

41. Gregory IX to King Bela of Hungary, Vocem in excelso, 1241

42. Gregory IX to the Abbot of Heiligenkreuz, Vocem in excelso, 1241

43. Continuatio Sancrucensis, 1234-1266

44. A Thirteenth-Century English Liturgical Response to the Mongol Threat

45. Matthew Paris on Archbishop Peter and the Mongol Threat, 1244

46. The First Council of Lyons, 1245

47. The Master of the Temple to the Preceptor of Templar Houses in England, 1261

48. Alexander IV on the Tartar Threat, Clamat in auribus, 1261

49. Letter from Hülagü, Il-Khan of Persia, to Louis IX, 1262

PART VII. THE SAINT'S CRUSADES, 1248-1270

50. Jean de Joinville's Preparations for Departure on Crusade, 1248

51. John Sarrasin's Letter on the Capture of Damietta, 1249

52. Ibn Wasil (ca. 1282) and al-Makrisi (ca. 1440) on Louis's Defeat

53. Louis's Letter to the People of France, 1250

54. The Pastoureaux, 1251

55. The Register of Eudes Rigaud, 1260-1269

56. Rutebeuf, "Lament of the Holy Land," ca. 1266

PART VIII. THE ITALIAN CRUSADES, 1241-1268

57. Gregory IX to John of Civitella, Cum tibi duxerimus, 1241

58. Matthew Paris on Staufer Italy, 1245-1269

59. Urban IV to Louis IX on Manfred, Ecce fili carissime, 1264

60. Salimbene of Parma on Staufer Italy, ca. 1285

61. The Chronicle of Pedro III of Aragon (r. 1283-1288

PART IX. LIVING AND DYING ON CRUSADE

62. Ticket-Scalping on a Crusade Ship, 1248

63. Contract of Crusade Service, 1270

64. Lawsuit for Breach of Contract, 1250

65. Traveling in Style and at Risk, 1216-1217

66. The Last Will and Testament of Barzella Merxadrus, 1219

67. The Codicil of Count Henry of Rodez, 1222

68. The Archbishop of York on Ignoble Pilgrims, 1275

PART X. THE ROAD TO ACRE, 1265-1291

69. Gilbert of Tournai on Reform and Crusade, ca. 1272-1274

70. Humbert of Romans, Opusculum tripartitum, ca. 1272-1274

71. Gregory X and the Second Council of Lyons, 1274

72. The Templar of Tyre on the Fall of Acre, 1291

73. Abu l-Fida' and Abu l-Mahasin on the Fall of Acre, 1291

Index

Acknowledgments

Reihe/Serie	The Middle Ages Series
Zusatzinfo	5 illus.
Verlagsort	Pennsylvania
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8122-2313-6 / 0812223136
ISBN-13	978-0-8122-2313-2 / 9780812223132
Zustand	Neuware