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Nievergelt, Marco (2015) The sege of Melayne and the siege of Jerusalem. The Chaucer Review, 49 (4). pp. 402-426. doi:10.5325/chaucerrev.49.4.0402 ISSN 0009-2002.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.49.4.0402
Abstract
Two Middle English poems are placed within the context of the papal Schism of 1378-1415, itself framed by the rising tension between the nations of France and England during the Hundred Years’ War. Both poems imagine a fictional triumph of Christians over a religious Other—Saracens in the Sege of Melayne, Jews in the Siege of Jerusalem—and, through such crusading fantasies, seek to restore a sense of unified Christendom eroded by the papal Schism. Other contemporary developments also complicate the binarism of identity associated with the ideals of Holy War, notably the emergence of national crusades that encouraged contemporaries to view the largely dynastic and political conflict between France and England through a religious lens. Both poems thus attempt to imagine a unified Christian community regenerated by the experience of warfare, but because of the increasing difficulty in sorting out national and religious identities, they also exacerbate the internal fractures they set out to overcome
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BX Christian Denominations P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Gower, John, 1325?-1408 -- Criticism and interpretation, Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417 | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Chaucer Review | ||||
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press | ||||
| ISSN: | 0009-2002 | ||||
| Official Date: | April 2015 | ||||
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| Volume: | 49 | ||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 402-426 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.5325/chaucerrev.49.4.0402 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 March 2017 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 March 2017 |
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