Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety: The Portrayal of the Crusader in Medieval German Poetry

By William E. Jackson

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. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761825509
• ISBN13: 9780761825500
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"