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Author Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia (Marianne Cecilia), 1970- author.

Title Invisible weapons : liturgy and the making of crusade ideology / M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 349 pages)
Contents The militant eschatology of the liturgy and the origins of crusade ideology -- From pilgrimage to crusade -- On the march -- Celebrating the capture of Jerusalem in the Holy City -- Echoes of victory in the west -- Clamouring to God : liturgy as a weapon of war -- Praying against the Turks
Summary M. Cecilia Gaposchkin tells the story of the greatest collective religious undertaking of the Middle Ages, putting front and centre the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how liturgy was deployed in crusading, and how liturgy absorbed ideals or priorities of crusading. Liturgy helped construct the devotional ideology of the crusading project, endowing war with religious meaning, placing crusading ideals at the heart of Christian identity, and embedding crusading warfare squarely into the eschatological economy. By connecting medieval liturgical books with the larger narrative of crusading, Gaposchkin allows us to understand a crucial facet in the culture of holy war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2017)
Subject Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- History and criticism.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Crusades.
War -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines
RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- Worship & Liturgy.
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
Crusades
Liturgics
Liturgics -- Texts
War -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines
Kreuzzugsgedanke
Kreuzzüge
Liturgie
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016032343
ISBN 9781501707988
1501707981