Description
Book SynopsisIts unprecedented multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approach points the way to a complete reevaluation of the place of the crusades in medieval and modern societies.
Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating book that ever historian and history buff should read and use as a reference, but it must be mandatory reading for all students of history in all universities. -- Hrayr Berberoglu Winesworld's Magazine Editors and contributors alike deserve praise for a timely and closely knit collection that shows what can be done in this new field of query. -- Norman Housley Catholic Historical Review
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Crusading and the Work of Memory, Past and Present
Part I: Remembrance and Response
Chapter 1. Memory, Wonder, and Desire in the Travels of Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Battuta
Chapter 2. Constructing Memories of Martyrdom: Contrasting Portrayals of Martyrdom in the Hebrew Narratives of the First and Second Crusade
Chapter 3. Lambert of Saint-Omer and the Apocalyptic First Crusade
Part II: Sites and Structures: Cities, Buildings, and Bodies
Chapter 4. Remembering the Crusades in the Fabric of Buildings: Preliminary Thoughts about Alternating Voussoirs
Chapter 5. Commemorating the Fall of Jerusalem: Remembering the First Crusade in Text, Liturgy, and Image
Chapter 6. Erasing the Body: History and Memory in Medieval Siege Poetry
Chapter 7. The Servile Mother: Jerusalem as Woman in the Era of the Crusades
Part III: Institutional Memory and Community Identity
Chapter 8. Saladin in Sunni and Shi'a Memories
Chapter 9. Paul the Martyr and Venetian Memories of the Fourth Crusade
Chapter 10. Aspects of Hospitaller and Templar Memory
Chapter 11. Visual Self-Fashioning and the Seals of the Knights Hospitaller in England
List of Contributors
Index
