Introduction: Remembering in the time of the Crusades / Megan Cassidy-Welch -- I. Sources of memory -- Preaching and Crusade memory / Jessalynn Bird -- The liturgical memory of 15 July 1099 : between history, memory and eschatology / M. Cecilia Gaposchkin -- Crusades, memory and visual culture : representations of the miracle of intervention of saints in battle / Elizabeth Lapina -- Material memories : crusaders' things, there and back again / Anne E. Lester -- Historical writing / Darius von Güttner-Sporzynski -- "Perpetuel memorye" : remembering history in the crusading romance / Lee Manion -- II. Communities of memory -- Monastic memories of the early crusading movement / Katherine Allen Smith -- Royal memory / James Naus and Vincent Ryan -- Jewish memory and the Crusades : the Hebrew Crusade chronicles and protection from Christian violence / Rebecca Rist -- Family memory and the Crusades / Nicholas Paul and Jochen Schenk -- III. Cultural memory -- "A blow sent by God" : changing Byzantine memories of the Crusades / Jonathan Harris -- Living and remembering the Crusades and the Reconquista : Iberia, 11th-13th centuries / Ana Rodriguez -- The Muslim memory of the Crusades / Alex Mallett -- Appropriating history : remembering the Crusades in Latvia and Estonia / Carsten Selch Jensen.
Summary:
"Remembering the Crusades and Crusading examines the diverse contexts in which crusading was memorialised and commemorated in the medieval world and beyond. The collection not only shows how the crusades were commemorated in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but also considers the longer-term remembrance of the crusades into the modern era. This collection is divided into three sections, the first of which deals with the textual, material and visual sources used to remember. Each contributor introduces a particular body of source material and presents first-hand experience of using those sources in their own research. The second section contains four chapters examining four specific communities active in commemorating the Crusades, including religious communities, family groups and royal courts. Finally, the third section examines the cultural memory of crusading in the Byzantine, Iberian and Baltic regions beyond the early years, as well as the trajectory of crusading memory in the Muslim Middle East"--Provided by publisher.
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