Description
Book SynopsisExplores how the Fifth Crusade was remembered and commemorated during its triumphs and immediately after its disastrous conclusion. Provides a study of medieval war memory, showing that in the early decades of the thirteenth century, remembering war was an important means of creating and expressing collective and individual belonging.
Trade Review“Using the Fifth Crusade as a case study, Cassidy-Welch (Univ. of Queensland, Australia) probes several detailed accounts written by eyewitnesses to the events in the Holy Land. This very-well-organized scholarly study, written by a respected authority on the Crusades, incorporates very helpful concluding segments at the end of each chapter, maps, and many up-to-date notes and references.”
—G. G. Guzman Choice
“By brilliantly reading the major sources for the Fifth Crusade as ‘acts of remembrance,’ sources intended to shape the individual and collective memory of the crusade, Megan Cassidy-Welch pushes us to reconsider both medieval and modern memories of this epic campaign.”
—David M. Perry,author of Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade
“Bringing to bear a set of provocative questions and sophisticated theoretical concepts, Megan Cassidy-Welch illuminates the powerful scope of memory in shaping the experience of crusading during the thirteenth century. War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade argues that remembering war had its own temporal and spatial logic, which influenced how crusaders understood and narrated their experiences at home and abroad.”
—Anne E. Lester,author of Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women’s Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne
“A very insightful piece of work, one that opens up new conversations and avenues for research on the Fifth Crusade but which also contributes to broader debates about the process of remembering warfare and its long-term trajectory.”
—Nicholas Morton Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture
“I think that this work is an important contribution to crusade scholarship. It opens a new way for further studies and brings attention to the issue of historical memory of the “later crusades,” which have been rather neglected in favour of the early expeditions.”
—Valentin Portnykh Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Preparatory Memory: Managing Remembrance
2. Eyewitnessing and Remembrance Work
3. Remembering Crusaders
4. Remembering Loss
5. Places of Remembrance
6. Coming Home: The Materials of Memory
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
