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15 July 1099: God wills it

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2020, (42), pp.291~317
  • DOI : 10.51786/RCHF.2020.02.42.291
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : January 20, 2020
  • Accepted : February 6, 2020
  • Published : February 28, 2020

Yong-Jin PARK 1

1서울대학교 인문학연구원

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ABSTRACT

“God wills it!”(Deus vult). This phrase was the battle cries of the Crusaders. The Crusader’s goal was the recovery of the Holy Land and the ‘liberation’ of Jerusalem with the Holy Sepulchre. The liberation of Jerusalem was regarded as the beginning of a new age within the salvific history. Thus, right after the Capture onwards, the liberation of Jerusalem with the Holy Sepulchre was commemorated through liturgies, feasts and hymns, and repeatedly copied in many chronicles. So the liberation became an important collective memory of Western Europe. But as the threat of Islam weakened from the 16th century, the liberation of Jerusalem and the Crusades became past events, and in the Age of Enlightenment they were regarded as medieval superstition and barbarity. In the 19th century, under the influence of nationalism, the Crusades served as a reservoir for supplying national heroes, and helped to shape the national collective memory. It was not until the twentieth century that the researches based on the sources flourished in various aspects. But many of them were still not completely out of euro-centrism, and the politician and the public have old stereotypes.

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