Bibliography and Resources

The Morgan Picture Bible

http://www.themorgan.org/collection/Crusader-Bible

Links to online images of the entire Morgan Picture Bible in the Morgan Library and Museum.  Also provides further information such as provenance.

The Psalter of Louis IX

http://gallicalabs.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8447877n/f1.image.r=10525

Links to images of the Psalter of Louis IX viewed through Gallica Labs, the program used by the Bibliotheque nationale de France to offer high-resolution images of manuscripts online.  Also provides further information such as provenance.  Website in French.

 

Primary Sources

 Barber, Malcolm, and A. K. Bate. Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th-13th Centuries. Surrey: Ashgate, 2010.

de Joinville, Jean. The Life of Saint Louis. Translated by M. R. B. Shaw. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963.

Paris, Matthew. Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Monastic Life in the Thirteenth Century. Translated by Richard Vaughn. Gloucestershire: St. Martin's Press, 1984.

Sarrasin, John. "John Sarrasin, Chamberlain of France, Describes the Capture of Damietta." In Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291, edited by Jessalyn Bird, Edward Peters, and James M. Powell, 354-360. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

 

Bibliography

Abels, Richard. “Cultural Representations of Warfare in the High Middle Ages: The Morgan Picture Bible.” In Crusading and Warfare in the High Middle Ages: Realities and Representations, edited by Simon John and Nicholas Edward Morton, 13-35. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2014

Elukin, Jonathan M. “Warrior or Saint?  Joinville, Louis IX’s Character, and the Challenge of the Crusade.” In Center and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval World in Honor of William Chester Jordan, edited by G. Geltner, Katherine L. Jansen, and Anne E. Lester, 183-194. Leiden: Brill, 2013

Fliegel, Stephen N. “The Art of War: Thirteenth-Century Arms and Armor.” In The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library’s Medieval Picture Bible, eds. William Noel and Daniel Weiss, 82-97. London: Third Millennium Publishing, 2002.

France, John. Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1999.

Gaposchkin, M. C. “Louis IX, Crusade, and the Promise of Joshua in the Holy Land.” Journal of Medieval History 34 (2008): 245-274. 

Gaposchkin, M. C. The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2008. 

Guest, Gerald B. “Between Saul and David: Picturing Rule in the Morgan Library Old Testament.” In Between the Picture and the Word: Manuscript Studies from the Index of Christian Art, edited by Colum Hourihane, 72-80. University Press: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005

Guest, Gerald B. “The People Demand a King: Visualizing Monarchy in the ‘Psalter of Louis IX.’” Studies in Iconography 23 (2002): 1-27. 

Hollengreen, Laura H. “The Politics and Poetics of Possession: Saint Louis, the Jews, and Old Testament Violence.” In Between the Picture and the Word: Manuscript Studies from the Index of Christian Art, edited by Colum Hourihane, 51-71. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.

Jordan, William C. Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1979. 

Le Goff, Jacques. Saint Louis. Translated by Gareth Evan Gollrad. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009.

Smith, Caroline. Crusading in the Age of Joinville. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Stones, Alison. “Sacred and Profane Art: Secular and Litrugical Book Illumination in  the Thirteenth Century.” In The Epic in Medieval Society: Aesthetic and Moral Value, edited by Harald Scholler, 106-112. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1973. 

Weiss, Daniel H.  Art and Crusade in the Age of Saint Louis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. 

Weiss, Daniel H. “Biblical History and Medieval Historiography: Rationalizing Strategies in Crusader Art.” MLN 108, no. 4 (1993): 710-737.