The Loss of the Holy Land and <i>Sir Isumbras:</i> Literary Contributions to Fourteenth-Century Crusade Discourse

Manion, Lee

doi:10.1017/s0038713409990960

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Crusades in Literature

Norako

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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The crusades – specifically those focused on the recovery of Jerusalem – had a sustained impact on the literary culture of medieval England. While medieval France, Italy, and Germany produced far greater numbers of crusaders, a significant number of Englishmen participated in a variety of crusading campaigns as well, and the idea of crusading remained deeply important to the culture of medieval England for centuries after the collapse of the Latin Kingdom in the late thirteenth century. The popularity of the subject matter pervaded a wide variety of cultural registers, and, perhaps surprisingly, seems to have gained literary traction as the frequency of crusades to Jerusalem waned in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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Crusades in Literature

Norako

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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SirIsumbras

Rădulescu

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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Sir Isumbras is one of the most popular hagiographic or penitential romances in Middle English, attested to by the numerous extant copies in manuscript and early print. Its plot follows, in part, the martyrdom of St. Eustace, although Isumbras undertakes penance willingly rather than having to embrace conversion, and he does not lose his life at the end of the story. The happy ending proposed by the romance version of this penitential journey resonated with the middle‐class audiences of this late fourteenth‐century Middle English text as it was copied into numerous gentry‐owned manuscripts. This is not surprising: following his heart‐felt penitence Isumbras enjoys even more power and status in this life, alongside his long‐lost, then returned, sons and wife.

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Chivalry, Masculinity, and Sexuality

Mesley¹

2018

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades

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The Loss of the Holy Land and Sir Isumbras: Literary Contributions to Fourteenth-Century Crusade Discourse

Abstract: Ad hec ergo quod Terra Sancta . . . possit recuperari et recuperata servari, neccessarie videntur orationes devote universalis ecclesie, que non videntur haberi posse sine reformatione status universalis ecclesie.

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