1st Edition

On Warfare and the Threefold Path of the Jerusalem Pilgrimage A Translation of Ralph Niger’s De re militari et triplici via peregrinationis Ierosolimitane

By John Cotts Copyright 2023
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

This volume will provide the first English translation of Ralph Niger’s critical reflection on military pilgrimage, written in the late 1180s in response to the calling of the Third Crusade. Long known to scholars as early and highly idiosyncratic critique of crusading, On Warfare and the Threefold Path of the Jerusalem Pilgrimage provides a sustained reflection on penance, the meaning of... Read more

Introduction

Ralph Niger’s life and career

Ralph Niger’s extant writings

On Warfare: manuscripts, dating and synopsis

On Warfare as ‘crusade criticism’

A note on the translation

On Warfare and the Threefold Path of the Jerusalem Pilgrimage

Prologue

Book I

Book II

Book III

Book IV

Bibliography

Biography

John D. Cotts (PhD Berkeley, 2000) is a professor of history and the Chair of the Division of Social Sciences at Whitman College (USA). A cultural and intellectual historian of twelfth-century England and France, he has published two books: The Clerical Dilemma: Peter of Blois and Literate Culture in the Twelfth Century (2009), and Europe’s Long Twelfth Century: Oder, Anxiety and Adaptation 10951229 (2013).