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oapen-20.500.12657-881882024-03-28T14:02:49Z Invisible Weapons Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia crusade, liturgical history, crusades history, Latin Christians, medieval religious culture, Christian identity, culture of holy war, Kingdom of Jerusalem, medieval religious rituals, the crusaders’ cross, liturgy of warfare thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FB Middle East thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500::3KL c 1000 CE to c 1500 Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how public worship was deployed, and how prayers and masses absorbed the ideals and priorities of crusading. Placing religious texts and practices within the larger narrative of crusading, Gaposchkin offers a new understanding of a crucial facet in the culture of holy war. 2024-03-05T11:22:11Z 2024-03-05T11:22:11Z 2017 book 9781501707971 9781501705151 9781501755286 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88188 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501707988.pdf http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501705151/invisible-weapons Cornell University Press 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 9781501707971 9781501705151 9781501755286 378 open access
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Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how public worship was deployed, and how prayers and masses absorbed the ideals and priorities of crusading. Placing religious texts and practices within the larger narrative of crusading, Gaposchkin offers a new understanding of a crucial facet in the culture of holy war.
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