Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Abbreviations ix
4. A Note on Names xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The Chanson de Geste in Crusade Propaganda
7. 1. Pilgrims and Settlers 11
8. 2. The Gesta Francorum 26
9. 3. Robert of Reims’s Historia Iherosolimitana 51
10. 4. The Old French Crusade Cycle: Crusade as a War of Families 75
11. Part II. Chivalric Romance in Crusade Propaganda
12. 5. The Challenge of Romance and the Thirteenth Century 99
13. 6. Nicolaus of Jeroschin and the Fourteenth-Century Crusade 124
14. 7. Adventure and the East in the Second Old French Crusade Cycle 156
15. 8. The Ideal Crusader in La Prise d’Alixandre 174
16. Conclusion 189
17. Notes 199
18. Works Cited 243
19. Index 261
20. Acknowledgments 269