CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Rubio Arévalo, Juan Manuel |
|---|---|
| Title | Explaining Divine Providence: Virtues, Vices and the Bible in the Narratives of the Second Crusade |
| Summary | This study offers a historiographical insight into the two contemporary accounts of the Second Crusade (1146-1148): Odo of Deuil’s De profectione Ludovici VII in orientem and the De expugnatione Lyxbonensi. The goal of the thesis is to analyse the explanatory tools of these narratives in order to explain the failure of the crusade to the Holy Land and the success of the siege of Lisbon. I focus on three elements of medieval historiography: the representation of virtues and vices, the uses of the Bible and the role attributed to God in the events. The study is based in a dialectical approach between the sources and the context that produced them, keeping into account the transformation of the crusader movement from 1099 to 1148, the nature of history writing in the Middle Ages and the theological framework developed to justify the crusades during this period. |
| Supervisor | Saghy, Marianne. Riedl, Matthias |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/rubio_juan.pdf |
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