| Description |
1 online resource (331 p.) |
| Series |
Explorations in Medieval Culture Series ; v.24 |
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Explorations in Medieval Culture Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Maps -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Fighting on a Prayer: Liturgical and Physical Engagement of Sacralized Warfighting in High Medieval Latin Christendom, ca. 1000-1250 -- Northern Europe and the Baltic -- Chapter 3 Battle Psalms and War Liturgy in the Medieval Gaelic World and Its Neighbors before 1200 -- Chapter 4 Religious Rites and Integrated Warfare in Civil War Era Norway (1130-1240) |
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Chapter 5 Religiosity and Religious Rituals in the Battle of Bannockburn, 1314 -- Chapter 6 Invocations by Knights for Supernatural Aid in the Sources of the Baltic Crusades, Medieval Poland and the Chansons of the Crusades -- Chapter 7 Rituals of War as Religious Markers during the Early Crusades in Livonia and Estonia in the Light of Henry's Chronicon Livoniae -- Chapter 8 "Devotis oracionibus plusquam gladiis": Rituals and Sacralization of Warfare in the Teutonic Order's Prussian Lands -- Index |
| Summary |
Brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare across Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maciejewski, Jacek
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Leighton, Gregory
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| ISBN |
9789004686366 |
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9004686363 |
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