Mapping Medieval Identities in Occitanian Crusade Song focuses on two twelfth-century musical-poetic practices of southern France - the sacred Aquitanian versus and the vernacular troubadour lyric - and newly interprets them within their shared context of the early Crusades. Employing a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives, engaging with music and literature in different languages, anthropology, historiography, and literary criticism, this book contributes to a holistic understanding of the phenomenon of the Crusades and actively invites its readers to reflect on uses of us-versus-them rhetoric and modern perceptions of Otherness.