TY - EJOUR A1 - Taylor, Jane H. M. TI - “An ingenious, and profitable kind of meditation” - Jehan de Saintré and the crusade T2 - Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies 2015 – 2, n° 30. varia JO - Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies (ISSN 2273-0893), 30, 2015 – 2 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-6098-2.p.0315 SN - 2273-0893 SP - 315 EP - 328 AB - Antoine de La ­Sale’s Jehan de Saintré appeals to its readers across a range of narratives – including an episode recounting the sort of triumphant crusade against the “Sarrazins” of Prussia unknown to its late medieval readers for more than two centuries. This episode is particularly relevant, in Burgundian and Angevin circles, in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This paper will argue that La ­Sale’s wish-fulfilment pseudo-history can be profitably analysed in the light of the “counterfactual”. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/02/24 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris LA - fre UR - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/cahiers-de-recherches-medievales-et-humanistes-journal-of-medieval-and-humanistic-studies-2015-2-n-30-varia-an-ingenious-and-profitable-kind-of-meditation-en.html Y2 - 2025/12/06 ER -