IMC 2025: Sessions

Session 1310: Crusader Chronicles as Pedagogical Tools, II: Beyond the Latin East

Organiser:	Patrick Eickman, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moderator/Chair:	Kurt Villads Jensen, Centrum för medeltidsstudier, Stockholms universitet
Paper 1310-a	Byzantium and the Eastern Christians in Crusader Iconography, 13th to 15th Centuries (Language: English) Svetlana Luchitskaya, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf Index terms: Art History - Painting, Crusades
Paper 1310-b	Sentimentalising Divine Intervention: Emotional Communities and Battlefield Miracles in the Teutonic Order's Chronicles (Language: English) Patrick Eickman, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Military History
Abstract	The Crusades not only brought about the creation of new polities and institutions, but numerous chronicles as well. Whether participants or outsiders, the authors of crusader chronicles aimed to provide their readers a broad education by providing lessons on military, cultural, and spiritual matters. The expansion of crusading beyond the Holy Land allowed this historiographical tradition to examine different regions such as the Baltic, Byzantium, and Occitania. This session treats crusader chronicles as historical objects of study, investigating how these works used the broader history of crusading for varying purposes.