Open-access edition of Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

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Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14850-2820)
Mahinder Singh Kingra (Project Director: July 2022 to January 2025)

Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how public worship was deployed, and how prayers and masses absorbed the ideals and priorities of crusading. Placing religious texts and practices within the larger narrative of crusading, Gaposchkin reveals an aspect of crusading that is too easily forgotten—the practice of prayer and its dynamic relationship with the practice of arms—and urges us to remember that medieval Latin Christians were as serious about their faith as they were about their warfare.

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Publication Type: Single Publication
Title: Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology
Year: 2021
ISBN: 9781501755286
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Author: M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
Abstract: Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how public worship was deployed, and how prayers and masses absorbed the ideals and priorities of crusading. Placing religious texts and practices within the larger narrative of crusading, Gaposchkin offers a new understanding of a crucial facet in the culture of holy war.
Primary URL: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501755286/invisible-weapons/
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Secondary URL: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88188
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