Remembering the Crusades and Crusading

Megan Cassidy-Welch is an Associate Professor of medieval history at Monash University. She is author of Monastic Spaces and their Meanings (2001) and Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination (2011).

• Introduction1. Remembering in the time of the crusades Megan Cassidy-WelchSources of memory2. Preaching and crusade memory Jessalynn Bird3. The liturgical memory of 15 July 1099: between history, memory and eschatology M. Cecilia Gaposchkin4. Crusades, Memory and Visual Culture: Representations of the Miracle of Intervention of Saints in Battle Elizabeth Lapina5. Remembrance of Things Past: Memory and Material Objects in the Time of the Crusades, 1095-1291Anne E. Lester6. Historical writing Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński7. "Perpetuel Memorye": Remembering History in the Crusading Romance Lee ManionCommunities of memory8. Monastic memories of the early crusading movement Katherine Allen Smith9. Royal memory James Naus and Vincent Ryan10. Jewish Memory and the Crusades: The Hebrew Crusade Chronicles and Protection from Christian violence Rebecca Rist11. Family memory and the crusades Nicholas Paul and Jochen SchenkCultural memory12. ‘A blow sent by God’: Changing Byzantine memories of the Crusades Jonathan Harris13. Living and remembering the crusades and the Reconquista: Iberia, 11th-13th Centuries Ana Rodriguez14. The Muslim Memory of the Crusades Alex Mallett15. Appropriating history: Remembering the crusades in Latvia and Estonia Carsten Selch Jensen

"This intensely tight-knit collection will find a place on any crusade historian’s shelf. It’s tremendously wide-ranging and will immediately become the jumping off point for all sorts of future research, not just on crusading but on any aspect of the later Middle Ages. Remembering the holy war was just as important to the movement of history as the holy war itself."— Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech, USA"Remembering the Crusades and Crusading demonstrates to both students and scholars how the application of theories about materiality and cultural memory to medieval sources has illuminated our understanding of how and why the Crusades were remembered in the Middle Ages and beyond. At a time when the Crusades have re-entered our public discourse, this book could not be timelier."—Kimberly Rivers, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA. "Overall, this book has much to its credit... there are several chapters which should serve as the ideal starting point for anyone looking to explore issues of crusading memory, and which provide important correctives and addendums to traditional ideas or avenues of scholarship. Given the impressive bibliographical data also available for each chapter, this should be a must for scholars of crusading memory, as well as university libraries and teachers of the crusades." — Andrew Buck, Queen Mary University of London, Medievally Speaking