IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 608: Remembering the Crusades in Text and Action
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Society for the Study of the Crusades & the Latin East |
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| Organiser: | Andrew David Buck, School of History, Queen Mary University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Susan B. Edgington, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London |
| Paper 608-a | Antioch, the Crusades, and the West in Memory and Reality (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Lay Piety |
| Paper 608-b | Refocusing the First Crusade: Jerusalem and the Miraculous in William of Tyre's Chronicon (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 608-c | 'An incentive to deeds of valour': Fortitude, Fear, and Masculinity in William of Malmesbury's Retelling of the First Crusade (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History |
| Abstract | In recent years, the importance of memory to the study of the Crusades has received growing historical attention. From charting its influence over the textual crafting of the Crusades' story, to noting its role in prompting recruitment and in defining family identity, historians have come to recognise the significant part which memory has played in guiding both medieval and modern reactions to the Crusades. This session proposes to offer new insights into this field by further exploring the relationship between memory and crusading in both medieval texts and the actions of contemporaries. |