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Imprisonment in the medieval religious imagination, c. 1150-1400
\"This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiographical literature and the world of the crusades to describe a conception of inclusion and freedom that was especially meaningful to medieval Christians.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Crusades and Violence
How was violence understood and justified during the time of the crusades? This book argues that although just/holy war theory has long provided the framework for explaining crusading violence, cultural history gives us deeper insights into the meaning and conduct of medieval crusading warfare. Using a range of sources including histories, letters, and material culture from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, this book provides fresh insights into medieval violence and the history of the crusades. It shows how violence was debated, defined, worried about, celebrated, and condemned, and that the boundaries of legitimate and illegitimate conduct in crusading warfare were constantly and consciously tested.
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Crusades and Violence
How was violence understood and justified during the time of the crusades? This book argues that although just/holy war theory has long provided the framework for explaining crusading violence, cultural history gives us deeper insights into the meaning and conduct of medieval crusading warfare. Using a range of sources including histories, letters, and material culture from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, this book provides fresh insights into medieval violence and the history of the crusades. It shows how violence was debated, defined, worried about, celebrated, and condemned, and that the boundaries of legitimate and illegitimate conduct in crusading warfare were constantly and consciously tested.
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War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade
In this book, Megan Cassidy-Welch challenges the notion that using memories of war to articulate and communicate collective identity is exclusively a modern phenomenon. War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade explores how and why remembering war came to be culturally meaningful during the early thirteenth century.
By the 1200s, discourses of crusading were deeply steeped in the language of memory: crusaders understood themselves to be acting in remembrance of Christ's sacrifice and following in the footsteps of their ancestors. At the same time, the foundational narratives of the First Crusade began to be transformed by vernacular histories and the advent of crusading romance. Examining how the Fifth Crusade was remembered and commemorated during its triumphs and immediately after its disastrous conclusion, Cassidy-Welch brings a nuanced perspective to the prevailing historiography on war memory, showing that remembering war was significant and meaningful centuries before the advent of the nation-state.
This thoughtful and novel study of the Fifth Crusade shows it to be a key moment in the history of remembering war and provides new insights into medieval communication. It will be invaluable reading for scholars interested in the Fifth Crusade, medieval war memory, and the use of war memory.
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War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade
In this book, Megan Cassidy-Welch challenges the notion that
using memories of war to articulate and communicate collective
identity is exclusively a modern phenomenon. War and Memory at
the Time of the Fifth Crusade explores how and why remembering
war came to be culturally meaningful during the early thirteenth
century.
By the 1200s, discourses of crusading were deeply steeped in the
language of memory: crusaders understood themselves to be acting in
remembrance of Christ's sacrifice and following in the footsteps of
their ancestors. At the same time, the foundational narratives of
the First Crusade began to be transformed by vernacular histories
and the advent of crusading romance. Examining how the Fifth
Crusade was remembered and commemorated during its triumphs and
immediately after its disastrous conclusion, Cassidy-Welch brings a
nuanced perspective to the prevailing historiography on war memory,
showing that remembering war was significant and meaningful
centuries before the advent of the nation-state.
This thoughtful and novel study of the Fifth Crusade shows it to
be a key moment in the history of remembering war and provides new
insights into medieval communication. It will be invaluable reading
for scholars interested in the Fifth Crusade, medieval war memory,
and the use of war memory.
eBook
Eyewitnessing and Remembrance Work
Heat rose off the sandy banks of the Nile in the summer of 1218 as a group of crusaders prepared to cross the river to capture the Egyptian city of Damietta. Among them was the bishop of Acre, Jacques de Vitry, who in a letter composed that same year reported that the army sat for four long months opposite the city, gazing on it but unable to reach it because of its seemingly unassailable defenses. It was a strange landscape in which they waited, “nothing but sand and salt,” although the Nile was known as one of the four rivers
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Remembering Loss
Along with Jacques de Vitry, Oliver of Paderborn is the most well known of the Fifth Crusade’s participants and supporters. Born around 1170, Oliver was master of the cathedral school at Paderborn by 1200 and then head of the cathedral school at Cologne shortly thereafter. Alongside Jacques and Robert of Courçon, Oliver was designated a preacher of the Fifth Crusade, traveling to the Low Countries from 1214 to 1217 and then departing for Acre in mid-1217.¹ Oliver of Paderborn’s remarks about the end of the Fifth Crusade in Egypt capture something of his desire to acknowledge and explain the Crusade’s
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Preparatory Memory
Remembering does not suddenly begin when a war ends. Almost as soon as they had taken up the cross and begun making their preparations for departure on a Crusade, medieval soldiers were clearly concerned about how they and their actions would be remembered—individually and collectively. In pragmatic documents usually analyzed to uncover motives for crusading (such as charters or wills and testaments), a sense of the power of remembering is also evident. In Crusade chronicles and eyewitness accounts, the stirring words of prayer and encouragement that were delivered to nervous crusaders on the eve of battle sometimes included the
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