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IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 503: Intertwining Past, Present, and Future: Images and Memories of the Crusades in Medieval Times

Tuesday 2 July 2019, 09.00-10.30

Organisers:Melanie Panse, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Stefan Schröder, Faculty of Theology / Department of Church History, University of Helsinki
Moderator/Chair:Jessika Nowak, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Paper 503-aRe-Negotiating the Past: The Holy Land and Images of the Crusading Past in Later Medieval Times
(Language: English)
Stefan Schröder, Faculty of Theology / Department of Church History, University of Helsinki
Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Literacy and Orality, Theology
Paper 503-bNever Reaching the Holy Land: Medieval Images of Crusaders Who Died Soon after Taking the Cross
(Language: English)
Melanie Panse, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Index terms: Crusades, Epigraphy, Historiography - Medieval, Lay Piety
Paper 503-cA Blueprint for Future Kings: Jean de Joinville's Crusader Memories
(Language: English)
Anja B. Rathmann-Lutz, Departement Geschichte, Universität Basel
Index terms: Crusades, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract

This session explores Crusades and memory from various perspectives and in different times, dealing in particular with questions of how the remembrance of the military campaigns in the Holy Land generated and formed collective memories over time. Focusing on diverse sources (texts, images, maps, objects) as complex media in their specific materialities for defining and negotiating plural images of the Crusades, the session also aims to show, how the three temporal dimensions past, present, and future were intertwined within these creative, dynamic, and multidimensional processes of remembering throughout the Middle Ages.