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- Title
CRUSADING AND POLITICAL CULTURE UNDER GEOFFREY, COUNT OF ANJOU AND DUKE OF NORMANDY, 1129-51.
- Authors
DUTTON, KATHRYN
- Abstract
The counts of Anjou, who were dukes of Normandy from 1144 and kings of England from 1154, are often cited in discussions stressing the importance of family tradition in prompting individuals to take the Cross in the twelfth century, yet no examination has focused on the reign of Geoffrey V, whose father was crowned king of Jerusalem in 1131. Although Geoffrey participated in neither the Second Crusade nor any known pilgrimage, his surviving acts emphasize his status as the son of a crusading king. This article analyses how in Greater Anjou this was part of a deliberate strategy to locate Geoffrey's authority within a crusading framework. By contrast, the style was almost never used in Normandy owing to different local traditions, history and contemporary politics, and the papacy's conception of what Geoffrey's role as duke was. This study responds to the need to examine crusading as central to contemporary Western political culture, arguing that it became a part of the exercise of power in a highly localized way.
- Subjects
NORMANDY (France); CRUSADES (Middle Ages); POLITICAL culture; CRUSADE bulls; GEOFFREY, Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, 1113-1151; FRENCH history; TWELFTH century; KINGS &; rulers
- Publication
French History, 2015, Vol 29, Issue 4, p419
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crv014