Remembering the Crusades and Crusading

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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 case studies using those sources in their own research. The second section contains four chapters examining 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. This book draws together and extends the current debates in the history of the crusades and the history of memory and in so doing offers a fresh synthesis of material in both fields. It will be essential reading for students of the crusades and memory. Cover Title Copyright CONTENTS List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations PART I Introduction 1 Remembering in the time of the Crusades: concepts and practices PART II Sources of memory 2 Preaching and crusading memory 3 The liturgical memory of July 15, 1099: between history, memory, and eschatology 4 Crusades, memory and visual culture: representations of the miracle of intervention of saints in battle 5 Remembrance of things past: memory and material objects in the time of the Crusades, 1095–1291 6 Historical writing (or the manufacture of memory) 7 “Perpetuel memorye”: remembering history in the crusading romance PART III Communities of memory 8 Monastic memories of the early crusading movement 9 High stakes and high reward: the memory of royal crusading 10 Jewish memory and the Crusades: the Hebrew crusade chronicles and protection from Christian violence 11 Family memory and the Crusades PART IV Cultural memory 12 “A blow sent by God”: changing Byzantine memories of the Crusades 13 Remembering the Crusades while living the Reconquest: Iberia, twelfth to fourteenth centuries 14 The Muslim memory of the Crusades 15 Appropriating history: remembering the Crusades in Latvia and Estonia Index