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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 315: Crusades and Nature, II

Monday 5 July 2021, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:Jessalynn Bird, Independent Scholar, Chicago
Moderator/Chair:Elizabeth Lapina, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper 315-aParis Theologians, Heresy, Competing Faith, and the Natural World
(Language: English)
Jessalynn Bird, Independent Scholar, Chicago
Index terms: Religious Life, Theology
Paper 315-bTo Control and Cleanse: The Contested Landscapes of Languedoc in Peter of Les-Vaux-de-Cernay's Historia Albigensis
(Language: English)
Beth Spacey, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham
Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval
Paper 315-cThe Anthropocene, Orientalism, and Race in the Pictorial Narratives of San Marco in Venice after 1204
(Language: English)
Thomas E. A. Dale, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Index terms: Art History - General, Crusades
Abstract

An understanding of Anthropocene - the history of human interactions with natural environment - has never been more pressing than today. The session will explore the intersection of crusader studies and environmental studies. It will address encounters with, responses to, and representations of a broad variety of natural phenomena (broadly defined) having to do with crusades and the Latin States. The topics
include portents and marvels; encounters with familiar and unfamiliar fauna, flora, and natural phenomena; and cultivation, consumption, and trade in crops, fruit, spices, etc. The session will serve as a springboard for an edited collection of articles.