Remembering the crusades
Subtitle: myth, image, and identity
By: Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager, editors
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781421404257
Subjects: Historiography; Crusades; In literature; Influence
Description: "Few events in European history generated more historical, artistic, and literary responses than the conquest of Jerusalem by the armies of the First Crusade in 1099. This epic military and religious expedition, and the many that followed it, became part of the collective memory of communities in Europe, Byzantium, North Africa, and the Near East. Remembering the Crusades examines the ways in which those memories were negotiated, transmitted, and transformed from the Middle Ages through the modern period. Bringing together leading scholars in art history, literature, and medieval European and Near Eastern history, this volume addresses a number of important questions. How did medieval communities respond to the intellectual, cultural, and existential challenges posed by the unique fusion of piety and violence of the First Crusade? How did the crusades alter the form and meaning of monuments and landscapes throughout Europe and the Near East? What role did the crusades play in shaping the collective identity of cities, institutions, and religious sects?

In exploring these and other questions, the contributors analyze how the events of the First Crusade resonated in a wide range of cultural artifacts, including literary texts, art and architecture, and liturgical ceremonies. They discuss how Christians, Jews, and Muslims recalled and interpreted the events of the crusades and what far-reaching implications that remembering had on their communities throughout the centuries. Remembering the Crusades is the first collection of essays to investigate the commemoration of the crusades in eastern and western cultures. Its unprecedented multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approach points the way to a com[lete reevaluation of the place of the crusades in mediaeval and modern societies"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : crusading and the work of memory, past and present / Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager; title: Cities of memory in the travels of Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Battuta / Christine Chism; title: Constructing memories of martyrdom : contrasting portrayals of martyrdom in the Hebrew narratives of the first and second crusade / Chaviva Levin; title: Lambert of Saint-Omer and the apocalyptic first crusade / Jay Rubenstein; title: Remembering the crusades in the fabric of buildings : preliminary thoughts about alternating voussoirs / Jerrilynn Dodds; title: Picturing the first crusade and commemorating the fall of Jerusalem / Jaroslav Folda; title: Erasing the body : history and memory in medieval siege poetry / Suzanne Conklin Akbari; title: The servile mother : Jerusalem as woman in the era of the crusades / David Morris; title: Saladin in the Sunni and Shi'a memories / Mohamed El-Moctar; title: Paul the Martyr and Venetian memories of the fourth crusade / David Perry; title: Aspects of hospitaller and templar memory / Jonathan Riley-Smith; title: Visual self-fashioning and the seals of the knights hospitaller in England / Laura Whatley.