Remembering the crusades : myth, image, and identity / edited by Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paul, Nicholas, 1977-

Yeager, Suzanne M.

Series:

Rethinking theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--First, 1096-1099.

Crusades.

Crusades--First, 1096-1099--Historiography.

Crusades--First, 1096-1099--In literature.

Crusades--Influence.

Physical Description:

x, 284 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Its unprecedented multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approach points the way to a complete reevaluation of the place of the crusades in medieval and modern societies.

Contents:

Introduction : crusading and the work of memory, past and present / Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager

Cities of memory in the travels of Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Battuta / Christine Chism

Constructing memories of martyrdom : contrasting portrayals of martyrdom in the Hebrew narratives of the first and second crusade / Chaviva Levin

Lambert of Saint-Omer and the apocalyptic first crusade / Jay Rubenstein

Remembering the crusades in the fabric of buildings : preliminary thoughts about alternating voussoirs / Jerrilynn Dodds

Picturing the first crusade and commemorating the fall of Jerusalem / Jaroslav Folda

Erasing the body : history and memory in medieval siege poetry / Suzanne Conklin Akbari

The servile mother : Jerusalem as woman in the era of the crusades / David Morris

Saladin in the Sunni and Shi'a memories / Mohamed El-Moctar

Paul the Martyr and Venetian memories of the fourth crusade / David Perry

Aspects of hospitaller and templar memory / Jonathan Riley-Smith

Visual self-fashioning and the seals of the knights hospitaller in England / Laura Whatley.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4214-0699-3

OCLC:

793012733