IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 804: Thinking and Writing about the First Crusade: Defining Heroes and Villains
Tuesday 13 July 2004, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Texas Medieval Association |
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| Organiser: | Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston, Texas |
| Moderator/Chair: | Michael H. Gelting, Centre for Scandinavian Studies King's College University of Aberdeen 24 High Street OLD ABERDEEN AB24 3EB |
| Paper 804-a | Anselm of Canterbury and the First Crusades (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 804-b | Anselm's Students Re-Interpreting the First Crusade (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Paper 804-d | Did Anselm Think that no Benedictine Monk Was to Go on Pilgrimage? (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session will deal with these different approaches to the first crusade. The first will examine St. Anselm's attitudes to the first crusade, in light of the crusade message as it reached England in 1096-99, seeing him as supportive of it. The second will examine the views of Anselm's students Eadmer of Canterbury and Earhart of Nogent is expressed in Eadmer's Gesta Dei per Francas and will argue that both expressed an implied new ways to view the crusade after the fact. The third paper will examine the perspectives of Raymond of Aguilers which we sharply different from those of other eye-witness chronicles, say two distinct and mutually approved crusading cultures, of the elites and the commoners, and … (rest illegible) |