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Crusades, The : Idea and Reality 1095 - 1274
Overview: Some of the documents are familiar, others little known. Together they form the largest collection on crusading in translation; indeed, two-thirds have never before been translated into any modern language. In presenting them the editors have used an analytical rather than chronological approach, including material illustrating crusades in Spain, along the Baltic shore, and within western Europe as well as tose to the East. This justification of crusading put forward by preachers are examined. So too is the appeal of crusading: 'Do you know what God has promised/To those who wish to take the cross?' asks an anonymous twelfth-century poet:
God help me, a very fair wage:
Paradise by firm promise.
He who can gain his prize
Is mad if he waits until tomorrow.
A final section explores the earthly realities of crusading from papal proclamation to actual campaigning; and, for many, illness and death.
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