Alexander Marx gained his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna (2019); he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he now is working on the medieval reception of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem (70 AD). He has published widely on the preaching of crusade expeditions.

• PrefaceList of TablesAbbreviationsNote on Quotation of SourcesIntroduction1 Objective and Goals2 The Established Narrative on the Preaching of the Third Crusade3 Methodology: What Is a Crusade Sermon?4 Preliminaries: Crusade, Exegesis, and SpacePart1 Contexts (I)1 Immediate Context: Authors and Texts, a Network of Preachers1 GregoryVIII2 The Circle of Clairvaux3 The Circle of Canterbury4 The Circle of Paris5 The Other Preachers2 Institutional Context: The Early University of Paris Constructs the Holy Land1 The Front of the Reformers2 The Holy Land as a Weapon against Scholasticism3 Forbidden Knowledge and the Early UniversityPart2 Texts: Sermon Texts, Exegesis, and Crusading3 Exemplary Descriptions of Sermon Texts1 Conclusion4 The Loss of the Cross Relic: The Tragedy of an Elect People1 Audita tremendi2 Hélinand of Froidmont, In ramis palmarum III: Ez. 9, Cross Signings, and the Landscape of Salvation3 Putting Ez. 9 to Use: Crusade and Eschatology4 Paradise Lost again: A Deity and Its Chosen People5 Mt. 16:24: One Shall Take up One’s Cross and Follow Him6 Alan of Lille’s Three Sermons De sancta cruce in Comparison7 Crucesignati: 1187 and the Impact on the Concept of Crusading5 The Loss of Jerusalem: Jeopardizing the Kingdom of Heaven1 The Heathen Have Come into the Sanctuary (Ps.79): Describing the Conquest2 Garnerius of Clairvaux, In adventu domini IV: Pagans and the Captive Daughter Zion3 The Conquest: A Signifier for the Spiritual Jerusalem4 The Conquest: A Signifier for the Heavenly Jerusalem5 Typology and Prophecy6 The Holy Sepulcher7 The Four Senses of Scripture: Where Does the Earthly Jerusalem Belong?8 Henry of Albano: Jerusalem between Monastery, Theology, and Crusade6 The Holy Land: Terminology, Borders, and Providential Itineraries1 The Holy Land: Terminology and Meaning2 The Borders of the Holy Land3 The Sea: A Pivotal Element in the Landscape of SalvationPart3 Metatext: The Metanarrative of Salvation History7 The Paradox of Failure in the Holy Land: A Tradition after the Second Crusade1 Peccatis nostris exigentibus: Articulation, Variants, and the Quest for Sin2 The Holy Land Has Been Given into the Hands of the Wicked (Job 9:24)3 The Misfits: Gerhoch of Reichersberg and Ralph Niger4 The Failure of Crusades: A Model5 The Consequence of Failure: Collective Reform8 The Crusades and the Apocalypse: Jerusalem as an Eschatological State1 Breaking with Augustinian Authority2 The Paradox of Eschatological Prognosis: False Prophet or praedicator Dei3 The Eschatological Offer of Identity: Preaching, Church, and Crusade4 The Earthly Jerusalem as an Eschatological State (1099–1187)5 The Narrative of Salvation History, Vantage Point Post-1187: Nodes, Plot Twists, and Accumulative Expectations6 Marching into the End of Days: The Apocalyptic Third CrusadePart4 Contexts (II)9 Media Context: The Material Evidence as an Archaeological Artefact1 From Canterbury to Paris2 From Clairvaux to Paris3 The Epicenter of Paris and Its Emanation4 Archaeological Artefacts of a Historical Practice10 Historical Context: Mobilization, Audience, and the Liturgical Calendar1 The Question of Mobilization: Preaching before the Friars2 The Question of Audience3 Mobilizing the CrusadeConclusionsAppendixBibliographyIndex of ManuscriptsIndex of Biblical ReferencesIndex of Places, Persons, and Subjects