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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 616: Fulcher of Chartres, Bartolf of Nangis, and the Early Narratives of the Crusade Movement

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:History Department, Rugby School
Organiser:Thomas William Smith, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:Andrew David Buck, School of History, Queen Mary University of London
Paper 616-aA Narratological Reading of Fulcher of Chartres's Historia Hierosolymitana
(Language: English)
Katherine Mortimer, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 616-bNew Manuscripts of Bartolf of Nangis
(Language: English)
Thomas William Smith, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 616-cAfter Ascalon: Bartolf of Nangis on the Early Years of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
(Language: English)
Susan B. Edgington, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract

The papers in this session will explore the form and reception of Fulcher of Chartres' narrative of the First Crusade and the early crusade movement, the Historia Hierosolymitana, including the abbreviated version of Fulcher's text traditionally attributed to 'Bartolf of Nangis'. Paper A will examine Fulcher's chronicle through the lens of narrative theory, as a means of both furthering our understanding of the source itself, but also of exploring the uses and limits of applying narrative theory to medieval texts. Paper B will present new manuscripts of 'Bartolf of Nangis' and the first findings from a new critical edition and translation of the text being made with Susan Edgington. Paper C looks at the content of the later part of the 'Bartolf' text, comparing it with the same section of Fulcher's extant recension, and comments on its use to continue accounts of the First Crusade by later copyists of Baldric of Bourgueil and Robert the Monk.