This book offers the first broad investigation of the preaching and mobilization of the Third Crusade (1187-92), straddling around 200 sermon texts as well as 100 manuscripts. It addresses the major problem that “crusade sermon” is an anachronistic category; therefore, it develops methodological tools for determining “crusade potential” in the many sermons that survived from the Middle Ages. As a result, both the medieval and the modern historiography are contested: the sermon texts tell us a story that is different in many ways.

This book is included in DOAB.