Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137-1336

A full-scale survey of crusading lyrics in Old French and Occitan.

The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse mass of reactions in the medieval West. While Latin sources provide official versions of its preaching, organisation and events, the vernacular lyrics of the troubadours and trouvères present a secular perspective, through a cornucopia of on-the-spot responses in France, Occitania, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Cyprus, Syria and Greece.
This book constitutes the first compre...