Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays primarily fear, anger, and weeping were understood, represented, and utilised in twelfth and thirteenth century western narratives of the crusades, making use of a broad range of comparative material to gauge the distinctiveness of those texts: crusader letters, papal