IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1523: Bordering the Crusades, I: Writing in the Margins
Thursday 7 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Katherine Mortimer, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London Stephen Spencer, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Andrew T. Jotischky, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Paper 1523-a | The Permeability of Textual Borders in Manuscripts of Crusade Letters (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1523-b | Misinterpreting the Margins?: Reconsidering Marginal Comments in the Only Witness for De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1523-c | The Third Crusade and the Rewriting of History in Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The papers in this session consider the intersection between manuscript boarders and narrative in works pertaining to the crusades. Paper -a explores the malleability of textual borders within the context of crusades letters by looking at how texts such as these were constructed and altered in their manuscript contexts, in particular focusing on the First Crusade Laodicea Letter and the papal bull Audita Tremendi. Paper -b discusses a marginal annotation in the only extant witness to the Second Crusade source De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi and will discuss how reinterpreting this comment might shed light on some of the 'mysteries' of the text. Paper -c focuses on the earliest manuscript of Richard of Devizes' account of the Third Crusade by examining the extensive marginalia and revision of the account, and how this sheds light on the dissemination of information in 12th-century England. |