IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 623: Temporal and Spiritual Frontiers in the Three Crusading Contexts
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| 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: | Katherine J. Lewis, Department of History, University of Huddersfield |
| Paper 623-a | 'Faith has vanished, peace has perished': Re-Constructing the Spiritual Frontiers of the Albigensian Crusade (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Religious Life |
| Paper 623-b | Crossing Borders between the Holy Land and Spain: Martin of León as a Preacher of the Third Crusade (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 623-c | Illicit Trade to Preserve Antiquam mercationem across Religious Boundaries during the Baltic Crusades (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Economics - Trade |
| Abstract | The second panel in the strand organised by the Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades brings together examinations of the temporal and spiritual nature of frontiers in three geographical contexts. Rasa Mažeika demonstrates how, in the midst of the crusade waged by the Teutonic Order against the pagans of the Baltic area, savage warfare did not preclude the creation and maintenance of peaceful commercial relations between Christian and pagan merchants. Through analysis of the Historia Albigensis, Louis Pulford reconstructs the divisions that defined the temporal and spiritual environments of crusaders and their heretical enemies during the Albigensian crusade. Alexander Marx argues that the Augustinian canon, Martin of León, was both a preacher and participant of the Third Crusade to the Holy Land and yet Martin's Liber Sermonum suggests that he considered holy war in the Levant and on his home front in Iberia as part of the same cosmic struggle. |