The Children's Crusade Medieval History,

The Children's Crusade was possibly the most extraordinary event in the history of the crusades. The first modern study in English of this popular crusade sheds new light on its history and offers new perspectives on its supposedly dismal outcome. Its richly re-imagined history and mythistory is explored from the thirteenth century to present day.

GARY DICKSON is a Californian who has lived much of his life in Scotland. A graduate of Stanford and Yale, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, where he taught medieval history before becoming an Honorary Fellow. He gave the Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford and was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Crusades: An Encyclopedia.

List of Illustrations	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Agatha Christie's Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)	p. 1
Mythistory	p. 3
From Mythistory to Metaphor: Sixties Resurrection?	p. 6
In Search of Evidence	p. 9
History, Mythistory, Memory	p. 15
History: The Pope and the Pueri	p. 17
The Papal Image	p. 17
Encounter in Perugia	p. 19
The Innocentian Epoch	p. 21
Religious Creativity and Impossibilism in the Age of Innocent III	p. 23
Innocent III, Papal Crusader	p. 29
Who were the Pueri?	p. 33
History: Birthpangs of the Children's Crusade	p. 36
Pentecost	p. 36
Chartres	p. 37
A Burned-Over District	p. 41
Impetus-the Albigensian Crusade	p. 46
Stimulus-towards Las Navas de Tolosa	p. 49
Arousal-the Crisis Processions at Chartres	p. 53
History: Charisma	p. 59
Weber's Charisma	p. 59
Charisma and Crusade	p. 59
From Kneeling Sheep to Pilgrim-Christ	p. 63
Stephen of Cloyes	p. 66
To Saint-Denis: the Pilgrimage of the Shepherd Boys	p. 70
Royal Dispersal	p. 75
Violence at Saint-Quentin	p. 77
History: On the Road	p. 83
Continuities	p. 83
The Road to Cologne	p. 84
Self-Imaginings	p. 89
The Quest for the True Cross	p. 94
Cologne-the Rhineland Journey Begins	p. 98
A New Moses? Nicholas of Cologne	p. 102
History: The Great Migration	p. 107
A New Life-Nicholas of Cologne and the Pueri in Italy	p. 107
Rome	p. 111
Nicholas and Francis of Assisi in Egypt	p. 115
Otto, the Last Puer	p. 121
The Aftermath: Catastrophe or Pseudo-Catastrophe?	p. 123
Epilogue: What was the Children's Crusade?	p. 127
Mythistory: The Shape of a Story	p. 131
"Based on a Real Event"	p. 131
Mythistoricizing the Pueri	p. 132
Child-Martyrs: the New Innocents	p. 137
Searching for Villains	p. 140
Eminent Mythistorians: Alberic of Trois-Fontaines	p. 143
Eminent Mythistorians: Matthew Paris	p. 147
Eminent Mythistorians: Vincent of Beauvais	p. 151
Mythistory and the Spirit of Prophecy	p. 155
Memory: The Echo of the Centuries-Fourteenth to Eighteenth	p. 158
The Fourteenth-Century Chroniclers: Recitations and Surprises	p. 159
Later Medieval Versions of the Children's Crusade	p. 162
Renaissance and Early Modern Children's Crusades	p. 164
Voltaire and the Enlightenment	p. 169
Memory: The Echo of the Centuries-Nineteenth to Twentieth	p. 173
Nineteenth-Century Romantic Medievalism	p. 173
Academic Professionalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany	p. 176
Nineteenth-Century Popular History and Historical Fiction	p. 178
A Dreadful Warning? The Pueri in Children's Literature	p. 182
Twentieth-Century Voices: Historians, Poets, Composers	p. 186
Twentieth-Century Voices: Novelists	p. 190
The Persistence of Social Memory	p. 194
Chronology	p. 197
Map: Europe of the Pueri	p. 199
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited References	p. 200
Notes	p. 203
Bibliography: Specialist Scholarship	p. 240
Index	p. 241
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The Children's Crusade Medieval History, Modern Mythistory

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