A Journey to the Promised Land: Crusading Theology in the Historia de Profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam (c. 1200)Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001 - 84 pages Towards the end of the 1190s a Norwegian canon - his name is unknown - composed a dramatic account of the Danish-Norwegian expedition which, as part of the so-called Third Crusade, had left for Jerusalem some years earlier. Since 1187 the city had been in Muslim hands, and the Danish and Norwegian travellers set out to join in the liberation of the city. They came too late to fight, however, since a peace arrangement had been agreed upon by the Christian and Muslim leaders. In spite of this the canon makes the most of the heroic nature of the enterprise, drawing upon a series of literary and theological themes used in connection with crusading in the twelfth century. |
Contents
Preface | 6 |
Theological Crusading Themes in the Profectio | 19 |
The Profectio and the Contemporary German Narratives | 64 |
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Abraham allegory Audita tremendi autem Baldric Bernard of Clairvaux biblical Chapter Christian chronicles cols cross crucis crusade accounts crusading narratives Danish Danish-Norwegian expedition Deus Devil divine Dominus enim Esbern's speech eternal expeditione Friderici imperatoris fall of Jerusalem flowing with milk Fulcher RHC Occ God's Guibert of Nogent Henry of Albano Historia de expeditione Historia peregrinorum Holy Land Innocent Isidore Isidore's Israelites Jerusalem in 1187 Jesus journey King kingdom of Jerusalem lac et mel Maccabees magnates martyrs milk and honey miracle nobis Norwegian nostris Old Testament papal bulls papal exhortations papal letter passage Patrologia Latina Pope Urban present Profectio prologue Promised Land Psalm quam Quantum praedecessores quia quid quod Red Sea RILEY-SMITH Robert of Rheims ROUSSET Saladin sancta sanctorum SCHWERIN sermon sins sunt Sverre theme Third Crusade travellers twelfth century Urban II's speech Urban's speech Virgin Mary vobis William of Tyre words