Rewriting the First Crusade (eBook)

Epistolary Culture in the Middle Ages

Thomas W. Smith (Autor)

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2024
246 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80543-274-6 (ISBN)

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An exploration of the letters from the First Crusade, yielding evidence for a number of reinterpretations of the movement.The letters stemming from the First Crusade are premier sources for understanding the launch, campaign, and aftermath of the expedition. Between 1095 and 1100, epistles sustained social relationships across the Mediterranean and within Europe, as a mixture of historical writing, literary invention, news, and theological interpretation. They served ecclesiastical administration, projected authority, and formed focal points for spiritual commemoration and para-liturgical campaigns.This volume, grounded on extensive research into the original manuscripts, and presenting numerous new manuscript witnesses, argues that some of the letters are post hoc "e;inventions"e;, composed by generations of scribe-readers who visited crusading sites from the twelfth century on, adding new layers of meaning in the form of interpolations and post-scripts. Drawing upon this new understanding, and blurring the distinction of epistolary "e;reality"e;, it rewrites central aspects of the history of the First Crusade, considering the documents in a new way: as markers of enthusiasm and support for the crusade movement among monastic clergy, who copied and consumed them as a form of scribal crusading. Whether authentic letters or literary "e;confections"e;, they functioned as communal sites for the celebration, commemoration and memorialisation of the expedition.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Crusading in Context
• Reihe/Serie: Crusading in Context
• Zusatzinfo: 1 map, 3 graphs and 6 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 11th Century Europe • Adela of Blois • Adhemar of Le Puy • Alexios I • Alexios I Komnenos • Anselm of Ribemont • Antioch Siege • Baldwin of Boulogne • Battle of Ascalon • Bohemond I of Taranto • Byzantine Diplomacy • Byzantine Empire • Byzantine Relations • Christian-Muslim Relations • Chroniclers of the Crusades • cross-cultural encounters • Crusade Leadership • Crusade Recruitment • Crusader Ideology • Crusader Letters • Crusader Narratives • crusader states • Crusades Historiography • Forgery in Crusade Letters • Heinrich Hagenmeyer • Historia Ierosolimitana • historical revisionism • Holy Land • holy sepulchre • Islamic World • Jerusalem Capture • Jerusalem Conquest • Lambert, bishop of Arras • Laodicea • latin christendom • Lectio Divina • Le Puy • Louis VII, king of France • Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor • Manuscripts • medieval chronicles • medieval historiography • medieval pilgrimage • Medieval Religion • medieval warfare • Montecassino abbey • Nicaea, siege of (1097) • Oderisius I • Papal Indulgence • papal legates • papal letters • Paschal II, pope • Petchenegs • Pilgrimage • Pisa • Primary Sources Crusades • Quellenkritik • Raymond, count of Toulouse and St Gilles • religious devotion • Religious zeal • Robert II, count of Flanders • Robert I of Flanders • scribal culture • Siege Warfare in Crusades • Stephen of Blois • Tarragona • templars • Temple of Solomon • Translatio Sancti Nicolai • Urban II
• ISBN-10: 1-80543-274-5 / 1805432745
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80543-274-6 / 9781805432746