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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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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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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.
eBook
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
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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Places of Remembrance
Where the “gold-bearing” Tagus River joins the western sea lies the ancient city of Lisbon.¹ According to its medieval visitors, this was a very fine city, built on a steep hill that overlooked the treacherous but alluring Atlantic Ocean. Legend tells that Lisbon was founded by Odysseus after his departure from Troy, although by the thirteenth century, the city was more famous for its cathedral treasury that housed the precious relics of St. Vincent. Medieval Lisbon was also a place founded on more recent stories of war and battle, in which remembrance of crusading was embedded and encouraged. Captured by
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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 Crusaders
Who is worth remembering and why? In the previous two chapters, I have mostly considered how individuals shaped their own future remembrance and communicated their experiences as eyewitnesses and participants in the Crusade. The evidence of wills and charters, motivational words and prayers, and personal letters reveals that remembering and being remembered was a core element of crusading activity from the very beginning of a crusader’s identification with the holy war. Crusading was conceptualized as possessing a distinct temporality that drew together past, present, and future through eschatological ideas and practices of remembrance. In this chapter, I explore more specifically
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