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The Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth CenturyAuthor(s): Katherine Allen Katherine Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783275236, 978-1783275236\nSynopsis\nA new investigation into the twelfth-century accounts of the First Crusade, showing their complex relationship with the Bible.\n\nThe Bible exerted an enormous influence on the crusading movement: it provided medieval Christians with language to describe holy war, spiritual models for crusaders, and justifications for conquests in the East. This book adds tothe growing body of scholarship on the biblical underpinnings of crusading, offering a reappraisal of the early twelfth-century narratives of the First Crusade as works of biblical exegesis rather than simply historical texts. Itrestores these works and their authors to the context of the monastic and cathedral schools where the curricula centred on biblical study, and demonstrates how th.