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Book SynopsisExploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes inspiration from the new ways scholars are looking to trace the dissemination and influence of the memories and narratives surrounding the crusading past in medieval Europe. It contributes to these new directions in crusade studies by offering a more nuanced understanding of the diverse ways in which medieval authors presented events, people and places central to the crusading movement. This volume investigates how the transmission of stories related to suffering, heroism, the miraculous and ideals of masculinity helped to shape ideas of crusading presented in narratives produced in both the Latin East and the West, as well as the importance of Jerusalem in the lyric cultures of southern France, and how the narrative arc of the First Crusade developed from the earliest written and oral responses to the venture.
Table of ContentsContributors Editorial Abbreviations ARTICLES ‘Weighed by such a great calamity, they were cleansed for their sins’: Remembering the Siege and Capture of Antioch - Andrew D. Buck Framing the Narrative of the First Crusade: The Letter Given at Laodicea in September 1099 - Thomas W. Smith Fear, Fortitude and Masculinity in William of Malmesbury’s Retelling of the First Crusade and the Establishment of the Latin East - Stephen J. Spencer Refocusing the First Crusade: Authorial Self-Fashioning and the Miraculous in William of Tyre’s Historia Ierosolymitana - Beth C. Spacey Remembering Jerusalem: Lamenting the Holy City in Occitan Lyric, c. 1187–c. 1300 - Lauren Mulholland ‘Li bons dus de Buillon’: Genre Conventions and the Depiction of Godfrey of Bouillon in the Chanson d’Antioche and the Chanson de Jérusalem - Simon John The Gran conquista de Ultramar, its Precursors, and the Lords of Saint-Pol - Simon Thomas Parsons Index Notes for contributors
