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Whether undergraduates or more advanced researchers, all those studying the First Crusade will very much bene t from this book and I, for one, will read these sources with new eyes having bene ted from Lapina s new perspectives. </p> Conor Kostick, <em>Renaissance Quarterly</em></p>

Taking as a leitmotif a celebrated moment from the narratives of the First Crusade--the appearance of an army of saints during the siege of Antioch--Elizabeth Lapina gradually builds an original and convincing interpretation of crusader psychology and historiography. Her contribution to our understanding of the part played by the Normans in the development of crusade ideology is especially groundbreaking. This is an important and innovative work that is also, from start to finish, a delight to read. --Jay Rubenstein, University of Tennessee

Taking as a leitmotif a celebrated moment from the narratives of the First Crusade the appearance of an army of saints during the siege of Antioch Elizabeth Lapina gradually builds an original and convincing interpretation of crusader psychology and historiography. Her contribution to our understanding of the part played by the Normans in the development of crusade ideology is especially groundbreaking. This is an important and innovative work that is also, from start to finish, a delight to read. Jay Rubenstein, University of Tennessee

This is an excellent and rigorous study of what many would see as a niche group of texts. As Lapina has shown, however, these texts were nothing less than medieval efforts to understand the meaning of the crusade. As such, they connected with much more than the events they purported to describe. </p>--Megan Cassidy-Welch, <em>Parergon</em></p>

Students and scholars will be very well served by Lapina s careful attention to detail and placement of the crusader tales of miraculous battlefield interventions within a wider context. Choice

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Elizabeth Lapina is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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