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SUMMARY:Religious Rhetoric in the Chronicle Accounts of the Anglo-Scottish
  Wars: The Chronicle of Lanercost and the 'National Crusade' - Mark King (
 Pembroke College)
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:How plausible was it for contemporaries to claim that violence
  against fellow Christians could constitute religious warfare during the l
 ater middle ages? The evolution of the concept of crusading and its deploy
 ment by the Papacy against its political foes throughout the thirteenth ce
 ntury have been well documented by historians. Yet\, despite considerable 
 advances over the last two decades of the twentieth century\, the extent t
 o which secular powers were increasingly able to appropriate the crusade f
 or their own 'national' purposes during the fourteenth century is still po
 orly understood. Focusing on the Anglo-Scottish wars\, this paper seeks to
  explain the infamous religious rhetoric present in the chronicle of Laner
 cost through developments in contemporary crusade thought. Placing the chr
 onicle in the context of a war that was increasingly perceived along relig
 ious lines by both sides\, it suggests that Lanercost should be understood
  as one of the earliest attempts to present a conflict between two Christi
 an kingdoms as a 'national crusade'\, and to appropriate the divine sancti
 oning of violence normally reserved for holy war for the benefit of the 'n
 ational' cause. As such the chronicle forms a fascinating comparison with 
 other contemporary accounts of the conflict and an illuminating backdrop t
 o the later sanctification of violence attempted by both sides during the 
 Hundred Years War.
LOCATION:Seminar Room N7\, Pembroke College
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