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‘De civitatis utriusque, terrenae scilicet et caelestis’: Foundation Narratives and the Epic Portrayal of the First Crusade

December 5, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Siege of Antioch - from a 15th-century miniature painting.

My summary of a paper given at the Institute of Historical research on the accounts of Antioch and Jerusalem during the First Crusade.

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Pervenimus Edessam: The Origins of a Great Christian Centre Outside the Familiar Mediaeval World

July 17, 2012 By Medievalists.net

Abgar with image of Edessa (10th century)

This is the meeting place of the western and eastern worlds, for near here passed the movements between Palestine and Mesopotamia associated with Abraham, near here the Assyrians made their last stand after their capital fell in 610 B.C., and near here Crassus ill-advised attempt to press eastwards came to an end.

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God wills it: communitas, penance and ritual in the spatiotemporal of the First Crusade

July 19, 2011 By Medievalists.net

God wills it: communitas, penance and ritual in the spatiotemporal of the First Crusade Dwyer, William Warren (California State University, Sacramento) M.A. Thesis, California State University, Sacramento (2010) Abstract In 1095 the call for the First Crusade went out and by the summer of 1096 the penitential expedition was well on the way. On the journey, […]