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

Grand View Univ.

Presider Name

Thomas Lecaque

Paper Title 1

Peacocks in the Cloister: Anti-Hagiography in Gunther of Pairis's Hystoria Constantinopolitana

Presenter 1 Name

Jordan Amspacher

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville

Paper Title 2

Editing and Translating the Old French Siege d'Antioche: An Introduction to the Preparation of an Online Edition

Presenter 2 Name

Linda Paterson

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Warwick

Paper Title 3

The Old French Siege d'Antioche as a Crusade Text

Presenter 3 Name

Simon Parsons

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Royal Holloway, Univ. of London

Paper Title 4

Literary Influences on the Siege d'Antioche

Presenter 4 Name

Carol Sweetenham

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Warwick/Royal Holloway, Univ. of London

Start Date

13-5-2018 8:30 AM

Session Location

Bernhard 209

Description

This session will continue the success of a series of conference sessions at the past two ICMSs at Kalamazoo, alongside a session at Leeds in 2016 and the Institute of Historical Research in London, for the Crusades in France and Occitania project. The goal has always been to bring together scholars at all ranks and affiliations to bring in interdisciplinary methodologies and a diversity of source materials to approach a common set of questions: what is the relationship between the complex regional identities of the crusaders who left Francia and Occitania and their performance of the crusades, and what is the impact of the crusades on their home regions and worldviews. This year's session brings together the re-examination of a Fourth Crusade text from a new perspective and three papers examining the work in progress of editing, translating, and studying the newly discovered "Siege d'Antioche."

--Thomas Lecaque