IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 617: Historical Writing and Crusade Texts: Narrativity, Intertextuality, and Tradition
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval & Early Modern Centre, University of Sydney |
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| Organiser: | Stephen Spencer, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Andrew T. Jotischky, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Paper 617-a | Albert of Aachen, the Gesta Francorum, and the Fall of Antioch: The Independence of Albert's Historia Ierosolimitana Reconsidered (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric |
| Paper 617-b | 'A swiðe mycel styrung': The First Crusade in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Other Annalistic Texts from Early 12th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric |
| Paper 617-c | Narrativising the Third Crusade: Richard the Lionheart, the True Cross, and the Problem of Failure (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | In recent years, the diverse western sources for the crusades have received fresh scrutiny, with much of this work demonstrating the value of utilising different methodological frameworks, such as narrative theory, to interrogate the texts and of examining these sources in the broader context of historical writing across Europe. The papers in this session reflect, and seek to contribute to, this historiographical turn by exploring the potential intertextuality of two accounts of the First Crusade usually considered independent; the development of traditions about that expedition in neglected annalistic texts from early 12th-century England; and the textual significance and reception of an often-overlooked episode, Richard I's supposed discovery of a fragment of the True Cross, in narratives of the Third Crusade. |