Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety: The Portrayal of the Crusader in Medieval German Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761825500)

Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety treats three sets of medieval German crusade poems, in most of which the crusades are pictured as a source of distress, disenchantment, or even annoyance. The first group portrays the crusader as he tries to overcome strong reluctance to leave his home and loved ones. The second group, by some of the same poets, features the woman who is about to lose a beloved man to crusade duty and clearly objects to it. The third consists of three poets who give the impression of crusade involvement, but an impression that remains intriguingly unclear. These groups of German poems are treated against a background of Latin crusade poems in which the crusades cause stress and distress of a different kind.

Author: William E. Jackson
ISBN-10: 0761825509
ISBN-13: 9780761825500
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2003
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.40w x 0.52d