Hello Kent and John,
I too am
interested in the "rise of the crusading ideal." I recently explored
intersections of religion and battle in my dissertation, "Of Kynges Lygnage
and of the Kynrede of Ioseph of Arimathye: Romance, Hagiography, and Malory's
Grail Quest." My work led me to Bernard of Clairvaux and the Knights Templar
and also to the so-called "secular hagiographies," stories with elements of
both romance and saints' lives. I know this is much later than what you two
have mentioned, but I am also very interested in Old English literature. I
haven't read the OE saints' lives in a while, but I am hoping to get back to
them and reread them in relation to the work I have done on the later
medieval texts. I would be very interested in participating in any
conversations about these OE works, if that's okay. ---Staci
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