Preaching the Crusades ：Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century ( Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series )

Publication subTitle ：Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century

Publication series ：Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series

Author： Christoph T. Maier

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 1998

E-ISBN: 9780511884375

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521638739

Subject： K132 mid - century feudal society (10 ~ 15)

Keyword：欧洲史

Language： ENG

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Preaching the Crusades

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This study describes the way in which the Franciscan and Dominican orders became involved in preaching the cross and examines their contribution to the crusading movement of the thirteenth century. The papacy used large numbers of trained preachers from these orders in order to provide the crusades with a well-organised and efficient propaganda back-up throughout Europe unknown before the thirteenth century. The book explains how the propaganda campaigns were organised and how the recruitment of crusaders took place. It also challenges the traditional pacifist view of the founder saints of the two orders by showing them to be supporters of the crusades themselves.