IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1037: Crusading in the 11th and 15th Centuries: Defining, Defending, and Crossing Borders
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades |
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| Organiser: | Jason T. Roche, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jason T. Roche, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Paper 1037-a | Crossing Religious Borders: Conversion in Accounts of the Siege of Antioch (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 1037-b | Defining the Boundaries of the First Crusade (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Military History |
| Paper 1037-c | 'In partibus Bozne': Defending the Borders of Christendom, 1463-1464 (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Military History |
| Abstract | This is the first of two sessions sponsored by the Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades that focuses on the special thematic strand of 'borders'. Jennifer Markey examines the stories of religious conversion at the 'frontier' between the Muslim and Christian space at the siege of Antioch in 1098 as told in the Chansons des Geste. Edward Caddy explores whether those that followed in the physical footsteps of the First Crusaders saw themselves as part of this initial venture or whether they considered their expeditions as distinct ventures entirely. Charlotte Gauthier examines the crucial, yet - until now - little understood efforts of Pope Pius II to raise a crusade in the early 1460s with the aim of recovering the important buffer state of Bosnia, lost to the Turks in 1463. |