Writing the Early Crusades : Text, Transmission and Memory

Marcus Bull

ISBN 10: 1843839202 / ISBN 13: 9781843839200

Edité par Boydell Press Jun 2014, 2014

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Neuware - The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, but scholarly understanding of these texts is still far from satisfactory. The essays collected here 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.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Writing the Early Crusades : Text, Transmission and Memory
• Éditeur: Boydell Press Jun 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1843839202
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781843839200
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 240 L x 161 H x 15 P (en millimètres) 240 millimètres de largeur par 161 millimètres de hauteur par 15 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 449 grammes

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Synopsis

The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, but scholarly understanding of these texts is still far from satisfactory. The essays collected here 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.

À propos des auteurs

MARCUS BULL is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

NICHOLAS L. PAUL is Professor of History at Fordham University.

STEVEN J. BIDDLECOMBE edited the Latin text of Baldric's Historia (2014); having taught at a number of universities, most recently at Nottingham Trent; he is currently an independent scholar.