Invisible Weapons : Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology

• Main Author: Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2017
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Asia; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Catholic Church; CE period up to c 1500; Christian Church; Christian identity; Christian Rituals & Practice; crusade; Crusades; crusades history; culture of holy war; Europe; HISTORY; History and Archaeology; History and criticism; History of doctrines; Kingdom of Jerusalem; Latin Christians; liturgical history; Liturgy; liturgy of warfare; Medieval; medieval religious culture; medieval religious rituals; Middle Ages, 600–1500; Middle East; Military history; Place qualifiers; RELIGION; Religious aspects; Specific wars and campaigns; Texts; the crusaders’ cross; thema EDItEUR; Time period qualifiers; War; War - Religious aspects - Catholic Church - History of doctrines; Worship & Liturgy
• ISBN: 9781501707988; 1501707981; 1501707973; 1501705156; 9781501705151; 1501755285; 9781501707971; 9781501755286
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501705151

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.