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Crusades and Memory: Rethinking Past and Present book cover

1st Edition

Crusades and Memory Rethinking Past and Present

Edited By Megan Cassidy-Welch, Anne Lester Copyright 2015
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge
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Crusading was a religious movement involving papal authorization, the incentive of remission of sins, pious motivation on behalf of the individual, and the justification of holy war. Much recent historiography in this area has focused on resolving the questions of what a crusade was, and why people went on them. But crusading became a cultural and social phenomenon that changed across time and... Read more

1. Memory and interpretation: new approaches to the study of the crusades

Megan Cassidy-Welch and Anne E. Lester

2. The echoes of victory: liturgical and para-liturgical commemorations of the capture of Jerusalem in the West

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

3. True Romans: remembering the crusades among Eastern Christians

Christopher MacEvitt

4. Constructing memory: holy war in the Chronicle of the Poles by Bishop Vincentius of Cracow

Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński

5. In search of the Marshal's lost crusade: the persistence of memory, the problems of history and the painful birth of crusading romance

Nicholas L. Paul

6. What remains: women, relics and remembrance in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade

Anne E Lester

7. Memories of the preaching for the Fifth Crusade in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum

William J. Purkis

8. ‘O Damietta’: war memory and crusade in thirteenth-century Egypt

Megan Cassidy-Welch

9. Playing at crusading: cultural memory and its (re)creation in Jean Bodel's Jeu de St Nicolas

Sarah Lambert

Biography

Megan Cassidy-Welch holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in the History Department at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her work particularly concerns space and memory in thirteenth-century cultural, social and religious history.

Anne E. Lester is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Her work focuses on religious and social history during the high Middle Ages with a particular emphasis on gender, materiality and devotion.

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