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Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100-1500 examines one of the most
popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europe-from the
promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and
financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on
the Welsh landscape. Addressing a major gap in Welsh Studies,
Kathryn Hurlock peels back the historical and religious layers of
these holy pilgrimage sites to explore what motivated pilgrims to
visit these particular sites, how family and locality drove the
development of certain destinations, what pilgrims expected from
their experience, how they engaged with pilgrimage in person or
virtually, and what they saw, smelled, heard, and did when they
reached their ultimate goal.
An examination into two of the most important activities undertaken
by the Normans. The reputation of the Normans is rooted in warfare,
faith and mobility. They were simultaneously famed as warriors,
noted for their religious devotion, and celebrated as fearless
travellers. In the Middle Ages few activities offered a better
conduit to combine warfare, religiosity, and movement than
crusading and pilgrimage. However, while scholarship is abundant on
many facets of the Norman world, it is a surprise that the Norman
relationship with crusading and pilgrimage, so central in many ways
to Norman identity, has hitherto not received extensive treatment.
The collection here seeks to fill this gap. It aims to identify
what was unique or different about the Normans andtheir
relationship with crusading and pilgrimage, as well as how and why
crusade and pilgrimage were important to the Normans. Particular
focus is given to Norman participation in the First Crusade, to
Norman interaction in latercrusading initiatives, to the
significance of pilgrimage in diverse parts of the Norman world,
and finally to the ways in which crusading and pilgrimage were
recorded in Norman narrative. Ultimately, this volume aims to
assess, insome cases to confirm, and in others to revise the
established paradigm of the Normans as crusaders par excellence and
as opportunists who used religion to serve other agendas. Dr
KATHRYN HURLOCK is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at
Manchester Metropolitan University; Dr PAUL OLDFIELD is Senior
Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester.
Contributors: Andrew Abram, William M. Aird, Emily Albu, Joanna
Drell, Leonie Hicks, Natasha Hodgson, Kathryn Hurlock, Alan V.
Murray, Paul Oldfield, David S. Spear, Lucas Villegas-Aristizabal.
An examination into two of the most important activities undertaken
by the Normans. The reputation of the Normans is rooted in warfare,
faith and mobility. They were simultaneously famed as warriors,
noted for their religious devotion, and celebrated as fearless
travellers. In the Middle Ages few activities offered a better
conduit to combine warfare, religiosity, and movement than
crusading and pilgrimage. However, while scholarship is abundant on
many facets of the Norman world, it is a surprise that the Norman
relationship with crusading and pilgrimage, so central in many ways
to Norman identity, has hitherto not received extensive treatment.
The collection here seeks to fill this gap. It aims to identify
what was unique or different about the Normans andtheir
relationship with crusading and pilgrimage, as well as how and why
crusade and pilgrimage were important to the Normans. Particular
focus is given to Norman participation in the First Crusade, to
Norman interaction in latercrusading initiatives, to the
significance of pilgrimage in diverse parts of the Norman world,
and finally to the ways in which crusading and pilgrimage were
recorded in Norman narrative. Ultimately, this volume aims to
assess, insome cases to confirm, and in others to revise the
established paradigm of the Normans as crusaders par excellence and
as opportunists who used religion to serve other agendas. Dr
Kathryn Hurlock is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at
Manchester Metropolitan University; Dr Paul Oldfield is Lecturer in
Medieval History at the University of Manchester. Contributors:
Andrew Abram, William M. Aird, Emily Albu, Joanna Drell, Leonie
Hicks, Natasha Hodgson, Kathryn Hurlock, Alan V. Murray, Paul
Oldfield, David S. Spear, Lucas Villegas-Aristizabal.
This book examines the lasting impact of war on individuals and
their communities in pre-modern Europe. Research on combat stress
in the modern era regularly draws upon the past for inspiration and
validation, but to date no single volume has effectively
scrutinised the universal nature of combat stress and its
associated modern diagnoses. Highlighting the methodological
obstacles of using modern medical and psychological models to
understand pre-modern experiences, this book challenges existing
studies and presents innovative new directions for future research.
With cutting-edge contributions from experts in history, classics
and medical humanities, the collection has a broad chronological
focus, covering periods from Archaic Greece (c. sixth and early
fifth century BCE) to the British Civil Wars (seventeenth century
CE). Topics range from the methodological, such as the dangers of
retrospective diagnosis and the applicability of Moral Injury to
the past, to the conventionally historical, examining how combat
stress and post-traumatic stress disorder may or may not have
manifested in different time periods. With chapters focusing on
combatants, women, children and the collective trauma of their
communities, this collection will be of great interest to those
researching the history of mental health in the pre-modern period.
This original study, focussing on the impact of the crusading
movement in medieval Wales, considers both the enthusiasm of the
Welsh and those living in Wales and its borders for the crusades,
as well as the domestic impact of the movement on warfare,
literature, politics and patronage. The location of Wales on the
periphery of mainstream Europe, and its perceived status as
religiously and culturally underdeveloped did not make it the most
obvious candidate for crusading involvement, but this study
demonstrates that both native and settler took part in the
crusades, supported the military orders, and wrote about events in
the Holy Land. Efforts were made to recruit the Welsh in 1188,
suggesting contemporary appreciation for Welsh fighting skills,
even though crusaders from Wales have been overlooked in modern
studies. By looking at patterns of participation this study shows
how domestic warfare influenced the desire and willingness to join
the crusade, and the effect of such absences on the properties of
those who did go. The difference between north and south Wales,
Marcher lord and native prince, Flemish noble and minor landholder
are considered to show how crusading affected a broad spread of
society. Finally, the political role of crusading participation as
a way to remove potential troublemakers and cement English control
over Wales is considered as the close of the peak years of
crusading coincided with the final conquest of Wales in 1282.
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