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Writing the Early Crusades - Text, Transmission and Memory (Paperback)
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Writing the Early Crusades - Text, Transmission and Memory (Paperback)
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A pioneering approach to contemporary historical writing on the
First Crusade, looking at the texts as cultural artefacts rather
than simply for the evidence they contain. The First Crusade
(1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western
historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century,
beginning with the so-called "eyewitness" accounts of the crusade
and extending to numerous second-hand treatments in prose and
verse. From the time when many of these accounts were first
assembled in printed form by Jacques Bongars in the early
seventeenth century, and even more so since their collective
appearance in the great nineteenth-century compendium of crusade
texts, the Recueil des historiens des croisades, narrative
histories have come to be regarded as the single most important
resource for the academic study of the early crusade movement. But
our understanding of these texts is still far from satisfactory.
This ground-breaking volume draws together the work of an
international team of scholars. It tackles the disjuncture between
the study of the crusades and the study of medieval
history-writing, setting the agenda for future research into
historical narratives about or inspired by crusading. The basic
premise that informs all the papers is that narrative accounts of
crusades and analogous texts should not be primarily understood as
repositories of data that contribute to a reconstruction of events,
but as cultural artefacts that can be interrogated from a wide
range of theoretical, methodological and thematic perspectives.
MARCUS BULL is Andrew W Mellon Distinguished Professor of Medieval
and Early Modern Studies at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill; DAMIEN KEMPF is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at
the University of Liverpool. Contributors: Laura Ashe, Steven
Biddlecombe, Marcus Bull, Peter Frankopan, Damian Kempf, James
Naus, Lean Ni Chleirigh, Nicholas Paul, William J. Purkis, Luigi
Russo, Jay Rubenstein, Carol Sweetenham,
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