| Moderator/Chair: | Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Paper 1318-a | Conrad III and the Greek Sources for the Second Crusade: Errors, Omissions, and Flawed Presumptions
(Language: English)
Jason T. Roche, Department of Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Military History |
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| Paper 1318-b | From Crusade Plans to Princely Pilgrimages to Rome: The Crusade Plan of King Christian I of Denmark (1471) and his Roman Pilgrimage of 1474
(Language: English)
Stephen Olaf Turk Christensen, Open University, Denmark
Index terms: Crusades |
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| Paper 1318-c | Crusades at the End of the World: Scandinavia and the Crusades, 1397-1523
(Language: English)
Janus Møller Jensen, Department of History & Civilisation, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Index terms: Crusades |
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| Abstract | Abstract paper -a:
The convention that King Conrad III of Germany was defeated in battle by Turkish forces at Dorylaion and accordingly, forced to turn around and retreat to Nicaea during the second crusade, 1147/8, stems solely from Kugler's and Bernhard's nineteenth century interpretations of just two Greek sources, John Kinnamos and Nicetas Choniates. This paper will contend that there are serious errors, omissions and flawed presumptions in these texts when compared to our eyewitness accounts and other contemporary sources. Accordingly, it will be maintained that we should not confer significant authority to the evidence provided by Kinnamos and Choniates regarding Conrad's progress once he had crossed the Bosporous. This contention necessarily questions the traditional notion that Conrad's advance was arrested at Dorylaion.
No abstracts for -b and -c provided.
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