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St Francis of Assisi and Islam: A Theological Perspective on a Christian-Muslim Encounter [PDF]
Rout, Paul
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Knighthoods of christ: Essays on the history of the crusades and the knights Templar
Anmeldelse af Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar. Presented to Malcolm Barber, ed. Norman Housley (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007; pp. xxiii + 257. £55).
Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt
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The Allegory of the Christ-Knight in Piers Plowman
One of the allegorical motifs in the Vision of Piers Plowman which has often been specially noted on account of its boldness and picturesqueness is the description of Christ jousting against Satan upon the Cross clad in armor and embodying the chivalric virtues.
Wilbur G. Gaffney
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Imitatio in Julian of Norwich: Christ the Knight, Fruitio , and the Pleasures of Courtesy
An image Julian of Norwich uses to describe Christ on the cross is that of the warrior knight. Adapting this trope’s traditional application to God’s divine glory, Julian instead figures Christ’s humanity, and explores joy as an affective response to the Passion alongside traditional compassio .
Maria Prozesky
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The “Knight of Christ”: Christian Chivalry in the “Canticle”
The storyteller Franco Sacchetti, one of whose tales I quoted in chapter 2, relates how two Franciscan friars met the Englishman Sir John Hawkwood, a mercenary knight in Italy, in whose memory the grateful city of Florence put up a fresco by Uccello in Florence cathedral after his death in 1394. The friars greeted him very respectfully as “Monsignore,”
Brian Moloney
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Soldiers of Christ: The Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar in Medieval Ireland
Hugh P. Kennedy
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