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Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, c. 1095-c.1187

Crusading Spirituality argues that crusading ought to be situated more centrally within studies of change in the landscape of twelfth-century western European religious culture than previous scholarship has allowed for. Research for the book not only involved a close lexical analysis of some of the more familiar textual evidence for crusading studies, such as narrative histories, letters and charters; it also required an engagement with a much broader source repertoire, including pseudo-historical writing, collections of miracula and exempla, and theological treatises on the pursuit of religious perfection, the significance of which had previously been overlooked by historians of the crusades.