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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822882003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4214-0699-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 284 p. : ill

Collana

Rethinking theory

Altri autori (Persone)

PaulNicholas <1977->

YeagerSuzanne M

Disciplina

956/.014

Soggetti

Crusades - First, 1096-1099

Crusades - First, 1096-1099 - Historiography

Crusades - First, 1096-1099 - In literature

Crusades - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.