Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
History of the Temple
The Vengeance of Our Lord Tradition
Date and Provenance of the Poem
Overview of the Poem
Initial Critical Issues: Genre, Jews, and Violence
Sources for the Poem
The End of the Fourteenth Century: The Idea of Just War
The Structure of the Poem: Architecture of Divine Providence
The Laud Manuscript and Its Vocabulary
Manuscripts

Siege of Jerusalem

Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Bibliography

About the Author

Michael Livingston is Associate Professor of English at The Citadel, in Charleston, S.C. He is an author of both fiction and non-fiction and has published on topics as diverse as early Christianity, Tolkien, and James Joyce.