Crusade, Settlement and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, c. 1100-c.1300 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Buck, Andrew D; Spencer, Stephen J.; Kane, James H.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.

The period between the First Crusade and the collapse of the "crusader states" in the eastern Mediterranean was a crucial one for medieval historical writing. From the departure of the earliest crusading armies in 1096 to the Mamluk conquest of the Latin states in the late thirteenth century, crusading activity, and the settlements it established and aimed to protect, generated a vast textual output, offering rich insights into the historiographical cultures of the Latin West and Latin East. However, modern scholarship on the crusades and the "crusader states" has tended to draw an artificial boundary between the two, even though medieval writers treated their histories as virtually indistinguishable.

This volume places these spheres into dialogue with each other, looking at how individual crusading campaigns and the Frankish settlements in the eastern Mediterranean were depicted and remembered in the central Middle Ages. Its essays cover a geographical range that incorporates England, France, Germany, southern Italy and the Holy Land, and address such topics as gender, emotion, the natural world, crusading as an institution, origin myths, textual reception, forms of storytelling and historical genre. Bringing to the foreground neglected sources, methodologies, events and regions of textual production, the collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sort of Books
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805431527
• Artikelnr.: 68975488

Autorenporträt

Edited by Andrew D. Buck, James H. Kane and Stephen J. Spencer

Inhaltsangabe

The Crusades, the Latin East and Medieval History-Writing: An Introduction
Andrew D. Buck, James H. Kane and Stephen J. Spencer 1. History-Writing and
Remembrance in Crusade Letters - Thomas W. Smith 2. A 'swiðe mycel
styrung': The First Crusade in Early Vernacular Annals from Anglo-Norman
England - James H. Kane 3. To Bargain with God: The Crusade Vow in the
Narratives of the First Crusade - Edward J. Caddy 4. 'The Lord has brought
eastern riches before you': Battlefield Spoils and Looted Treasure in
Narratives of the First Crusade - Connor C. Wilson 5. Foundation and
Settlement in Fulcher of Chartres' Historia Hierosolymitana: A
Narratological Reading - Katy Mortimer 6. After Ascalon: 'Bartolf of
Nangis', Fulcher of Chartres and the Early Years of the Kingdom of
Jerusalem - Susan B. Edgington 7. Repurposing a Crusade Chronicle: Peter of
Cornwall's Liber Revelationum and the Reception of Fulcher of Chartres'
Historia Hierosolymitana in Medieval England - Stephen J. Spencer 8.
Between Chronicon and Chanson: William of Tyre, the First Crusade and the
Art of Storytelling - Andrew D. Buck 9. History and Politics in the Latin
East: William of Tyre and the Composition of the Historia Hierosolymitana -
Ivo Wolsing 10. 'When I became a man': Kingship and Masculinity in William
of Tyre's Chronicon - Katherine J. Lewis 11. Laments for the Lost City: The
Loss of Jerusalem in Western Historical Writing - Katrine Funding Højgaard
12. The Silences of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum 1 - Helen J. Nicholson
13. The Natural and Biblical Landscapes of the Holy Land in Jacques de
Vitry's Historia Orientalis - Beth C. Spacey 14. The Masculine Experience
and the Experience of Masculinity on the Seventh Crusade in John of
Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis - Mark McCabe 15. Writing and Copying
History at Acre, c. 1230-91 - Peter Edbury Index