The Crusades at Home: Roots, Impact, and Cultural Significance of the Crusades in France and Occitania
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Crusades in France and Occitania
Organizer Name
Thomas Lecaque
Organizer Affiliation
SUNY-Orange
Presider Name
William S. Murrell
Presider Affiliation
Vanderbilt Univ.
Paper Title 1
"We were hawks, and they were herons": Troubadour Lyrics and the Legacy of 1204
Presenter 1 Name
Jordan Amspacher
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Paper Title 2
Vicarious Crusading in Medieval Champagne
Presenter 2 Name
Michael Peixoto
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Robert D. Clark Honors College, Univ. of Oregon
Paper Title 3
The Crusades in the Twelfth-Century Library of Saint-Amand
Presenter 3 Name
Bradley Phillis
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Paper Title 4
The Hagiography of Crusading Captivity as Homefront Literature
Presenter 4 Name
Katherine Allen Smith
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Puget Sound
Start Date
12-5-2017 1:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 2030
Description
The Crusades in France and Occitania Project, or CFO Project, aims to promote, and help disseminate, research into the roots, impact, and cultural significance of the crusading movement in France and Occitania in the Middle Ages, while fostering international collaboration and furthering scholarly discourse of the field. Individuals already involved use texts as diverse as Carolingian saints lives, thirteenth-century chansons de geste, troubadour poems, and crusading charters to re-envisage how mainland France and its inhabitants provoked, responded to, and conceptualized the crusading movement.
These approaches characterize a new understanding of the direction forwards in crusading studies, now ascendant, which moves away from isolated case studies of the importance of the crusade solely from a 'crusading/crusader states' perspective to consider these expeditions, movements, and preaching events in medieval European geopolitical and cultural context. The influence of scholastic, apocalyptic, monastic, and eschatological thought - at the heart of medieval France's self conception - has been demonstrated to have deeply influenced the crusading movement, and, in turn, been influenced by it: see recently, for example, the work of Marcus Bull and Damien Kempf on the power of monastic literary transmission in the introduction to their edition of the Robert the Monk's Historia, Jay Rubenstein on apocalyptic concerns and the Liber Floridus, an encyclopedic twelfth-century Flemish florilegium , and Jan Vandeburie on the French crusade preacher Jacques de Vitry. Building upon Riley-Smith's seminal First Crusaders, new avenues of approach of prosopography have been used to reconstruct networks of nobles whose crusading credentials were often passed through family and kinship bonds, or bonds of patronage (Daniel Power's work on French participation in the Albigensian crusade, James Doherty on the crusading connections of Count Hugh of Troyes). In essence, the frontiers of crusade studies have moved 'home'; and these proposed sessions reflect this historiographical trend.
Thomas W. Lecaque
The Crusades at Home: Roots, Impact, and Cultural Significance of the Crusades in France and Occitania
Fetzer 2030
The Crusades in France and Occitania Project, or CFO Project, aims to promote, and help disseminate, research into the roots, impact, and cultural significance of the crusading movement in France and Occitania in the Middle Ages, while fostering international collaboration and furthering scholarly discourse of the field. Individuals already involved use texts as diverse as Carolingian saints lives, thirteenth-century chansons de geste, troubadour poems, and crusading charters to re-envisage how mainland France and its inhabitants provoked, responded to, and conceptualized the crusading movement.
These approaches characterize a new understanding of the direction forwards in crusading studies, now ascendant, which moves away from isolated case studies of the importance of the crusade solely from a 'crusading/crusader states' perspective to consider these expeditions, movements, and preaching events in medieval European geopolitical and cultural context. The influence of scholastic, apocalyptic, monastic, and eschatological thought - at the heart of medieval France's self conception - has been demonstrated to have deeply influenced the crusading movement, and, in turn, been influenced by it: see recently, for example, the work of Marcus Bull and Damien Kempf on the power of monastic literary transmission in the introduction to their edition of the Robert the Monk's Historia, Jay Rubenstein on apocalyptic concerns and the Liber Floridus, an encyclopedic twelfth-century Flemish florilegium , and Jan Vandeburie on the French crusade preacher Jacques de Vitry. Building upon Riley-Smith's seminal First Crusaders, new avenues of approach of prosopography have been used to reconstruct networks of nobles whose crusading credentials were often passed through family and kinship bonds, or bonds of patronage (Daniel Power's work on French participation in the Albigensian crusade, James Doherty on the crusading connections of Count Hugh of Troyes). In essence, the frontiers of crusade studies have moved 'home'; and these proposed sessions reflect this historiographical trend.
Thomas W. Lecaque