IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 504: Languages of Love and Hate, I: First Crusaders, First Impressions, 1100-1200
Tuesday 13 July 2004, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | SSCLE: Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East |
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Organisers: | Matthew Bennett, Department of Communication & Applied Behavioural Science, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst Susan B. Edgington, Department of History of Science & Technology, Open University Sarah Lambert, Department of Historical & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London |
Moderator/Chair: | Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
Paper 504-a | Crusaders in a Hall of Mirrors: Robert the Monk's Depiction of Christians and Saracens in the Historia lherosolimitana (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - French/ Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
Paper 504-b | Pagans and 'Others' in the Chanson de Jerusalem (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - French/ Occitan, Mentalities |
Paper 504-c | The Refusal to Convert: Tolerated Otherness in Old French Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - French/ Occitan, Mentalities |
Abstract | The arrival of the First Crusaders in the East, around 1100, faced them with Islamic communities, first as enemies then as subjects. The Latin Christians seem to have viewed these 'Saracens' as mirror opposites of themselves and created fantasies of them as heroes, lovers and ready souls for conversion. These examinations of Latin and Old French texts consider how these representations match reality and wished-for outcomes in the actual cultural clash. |