IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 528: Crusade Texts and Manuscripts, I: An Excitatorium for the Third Crusade - The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney / Society for the Study of the Crusades & the Latin East |
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Organiser: | John H. Pryor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney |
Moderator/Chair: | Peter Edbury, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
Paper 528-a | The Libellus: Authorship, Dating, and Relationship to Other excitatoria (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval |
Paper 528-b | The Libellus: Latinity and Relationship to Latin and Old French Sources for the Third Crusade (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval |
Abstract | The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum is an anonymous treatise which has traditionally been associated with Ralph of Coggeshall, but there is actually no evidence to support that. It purports to be an account of Saladin's conquest of the Holy Land in 1187, beginning with the battle of the Springs of Cresson on 1 May and ending with the surrender of Jerusalem on 2 October. But interspersed with the account are lengthy and highly emotional lamentations on Holy Places lost and their Biblical Significance. The text is extremely complex and full of allusions both to scripture and also to 12th-century Mariology. Its author may possibly have been a Cistercian or a Templar. The session examines the text's authorship, sources, Biblical geography, Latinity, and relation to other Latin and Old French Sources and excitatoria for the Third Crusade. |