1st Edition
Preaching the Crusades to the Eastern Mediterranean Propaganda, Liturgy and Diplomacy, 1305–1352
By Constantinos Georgiou
Copyright 2018
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
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Preaching was an integral part of the crusade movement. This book focuses on the efforts of the first four Avignon popes to organize crusade preaching campaigns to the Eastern Mediterranean and on the role of the secular and regular clergy in their implementation. Historians have treated the fall of Acre in 1291 as an arbitrary boundary in crusader studies for far too long. The period 1305–1352... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Clement V’s and John XXII’s organisation of preaching campaigns and the clergy’s role in their implementation Chapter 2: Organising and implementing preaching campaigns under Benedict XII and Clement VI Chapter 3: Preaching the Crusades: Propaganda, liturgy and popular reaction in the early fourteenth century Chapter 4: University trained clergy and the preaching of the crusade, 1305–1333 Conclusion Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Appendix IV Appendix V Bibliography
Biography
Constantinos Georgiou earned his PhD from the University of Cyprus (2015). He is currently an A. G. Leventis Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology of the same university.
"This is a serious and significant examination of important texts of interest to a range of historians." - Christopher Tyerman, Journal of Eccesiastical History
"Despite the narrow focus that the book’s title may seem to imply, this is a work of prodigious scholarship. Historians interested in many facets of late antique and early medieval religion, culture, and politics will find much of value in Garipzanov’s compelling study." - Celia Chazelle, The College of New Jersey
