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To Follow in Their Footsteps - The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages (Paperback)
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To Follow in Their Footsteps - The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages (Paperback)
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When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in
1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them
stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners,
jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the
crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice was invoked widely among the
noble families of western Christendom. Popes preaching future
crusades would count on these very same families for financing,
leadership, and for the willing warriors who would lay down their
lives on the battlefield. Despite the great risks and financial
hardships associated with crusading, descendants of those who
suffered and died on crusade would continue to take the cross, in
some cases over several generations. Indeed, as Nicholas L. Paul
reveals in To Follow in Their Footsteps, crusading was very much a
family affair.Scholars of the crusades have long pointed to the
importance of dynastic tradition and ties of kinship in the
crusading movement but have failed to address more fundamental
questions about the operation of these social processes. What is a
"family tradition"? How are such traditions constructed and
maintained, and by whom? How did crusading families confront the
loss of their kin in distant lands? Making creative use of Latin
dynastic narratives as well as vernacular literature, personal
possessions and art objects, and architecture from across western
Europe, Paul shows how traditions of crusading were established and
reinforced in the collective memories of noble families throughout
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Even rulers who never
fulfilled crusading vows found their political lives dominated and,
in some ways, directed by the memory of their crusading ancestors.
Filled with unique insights and careful analysis, To Follow in
Their Footsteps reveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond
the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity
and the culture of the medieval European nobility.
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