Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety

William E. Jackson is Associate Professor of German, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AbbreviationsChapter 3 General Introduction: Problems and Issues; A Brief Look at Scholarship; Procedure and OutlineChapter 4 Prologue: Medieval Latin Crusade Poetry as BackgroundChapter 5 Portraying the Crusader in Medieval German Poetry: Introduction; The Crusader and Jerusalem; The Crusader and the Enemy; The Crusader and God; The Crusader and Woman; Summary of Part I: Portraying the Crusader in Medieval German PoetryChapter 6 The Female Persona in Medieval German Crusade Poetry: Prelude: The Female Persona in Poems of Marcabru and Guiot de Dijon; The Female Persona in Medieval German Crusade Poems; Summary of Part II: The Female Persona in Medieval German Crusade PoetryChapter 7 The Crusade Observer of Unknown Status: Introduction; Summary of Part III: The Crusader Observer of Unknown StatusChapter 8 General Summary and ConclusionChapter 9 EndnotesChapter 10 BibliographyChapter 11 Index