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19 - Christian Crusading, Ritual, and Liturgy

from Part IV - Featured Conflicts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2023

By
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
Edited by
Margo Kitts
Margo Kitts
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Hawai'i Pacific University, Honolulu
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Summary

Christian liturgy and ritual underpinned the practice and ideals of holy war and especially the Crusades (11th–16th centuries) in the medieval Christian imagination. As the mechanism of connecting the salvific and eschatological to the secular events of war and warfare, the liturgy – in the form of knightly blessings, votive masses for war, and penitential processions – articulated and sacralized the ideology of holy war throughout the period.

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Crusadeliturgyritual processionsHeavenly Jerusalem
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The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War , pp. 385 - 401
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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