Crusades and Nature

1. Introduction.- 2. A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey?: Agrarian Environments in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.- 3. A Porous Boundary: Natural and Supernatural in the Hystoria de via.- 4. Crusaders as Microcosm: Soldiers, Pilgrims and their Intestinal Parasites in the Medieval Mediterranean.- 5. Real Animals in the Siege d'Antioche.- 6, The Wonders of Nature: Imaginary and Imagined Animals in the Fictional Universe of the First Crusade.- 7. Were Medieval Seamen Aware of Mediterranean Currents?.- 8. Estrela do mar: the Sea as a Destination of Crusade in the Cantigas de Santa Maria.- 9. An Encounter with Alterity: Western Chronicles of the Third and Fourth Crusade and the Natural Environment of South-Eastern Europe.- 10. The Comets of 1264 and 1299: A Comparative Look at the Near Eastern Sources.- 11. Ad terram Prusie . . . Quasi vinea de Egipto translata: The Role of the Natural World in the Written and Visual Culture of the Prussian Crusades, 1230-1390.- 12. 'The root of bitterness': Crusade and the eradication of heresy from the Occitanian landscape in Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay's Historia Albigensis.- 13. Darkness Visible: Nature, Superstition, and Miracles in the Historia Albigensis of Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay.- 14. The Natural World as Book (Mis)Read by Paris Theologians and Competing Faiths.

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• História da religião
• História Medieval
• Estudos literários: clássica, primitiva e medieval
• Teorias literárias
• História da Europa
• Filosofia ocidental: Medieval e do Renascimento, c 500 a 1600 c

Literature and the Environment;The Crusades;frontier cultures;narratives of travel;warfare;pilgramage;Literature and Space