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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.

Filed Under: Conferences, Features Tagged With: Antioch, Battle of Ager Sanguinis (The Battle of the Field of Blood), Bohemond I of Antioch (Prince of Taranto), Bohemond II of Antioch, Byzantium, Christianity, Crusader States, Crusades, Eleventh Century, Emperor John II Komnenos, First Crusade, Foundation Myth, Gesta Francorum, Greece, Ilghazi of Mardin, Institute of Historical Research, Islam, Jerusalem, Literature, Muslims, Mythology, Normans, People's Crusade, Peter the Hermit, Roger of Salerno, Turkish, Twelfth Century

CONFERENCES: Count Hugh of Troyes and the Crusading Nexus of Champagne

June 12, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This is my summary of a paper given at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.

Filed Under: Conferences, Features Tagged With: Champagne, Constance of France Princess of Antioch (Countess of Troyes), Count Hugh of Troyes (Count of Champagne), Crusade 1101, Crusader States, Crusades, Eleventh Century, Europe, Family, First Crusade, France, Historiography, Institute of Historical Research, King Philip I of France, Marriage, Middle East, Pilgrimage, Social History, Twelfth Century, University of London

BOOK REVIEW: “Defending the City of God” : A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem, by Sharan Newman

May 9, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Defending the City of God - Sharan Newman

This is my review of Sharan Newman’s latest book, Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem.

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Books Tagged With: 2014 Books, Aleppo, Arabic, Armenia, Biography, Christianity, Crusader States, Crusades, Daily Life, Edessa, England, First Crusade, France, Fulk V Count of Anjou King of Jerusalem, Gender, High Middle Ages, Islam, Jerusalem, King Baldwin I of Jerusalem, King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, Levantines (Latin Christians), Mamluks, Medieval Women, Middle East, Military History, Muslims, Politics, Queen Melisandre of Jerusalem, Queenship, Religious Life, Seljuks, Sharan Newman, Social History, Syria, Templars, The Levant, War, William of Tyre

Why Minorities Were Neither Tolerated nor Discriminated Against in the Middle Ages

January 20, 2010 By Medievalists.net

Marginal Illustration from the Chronicles of Offa (British Library, Cotton Nero D. I.), folio 183v, Jews being persecuted. Illustration by Matthew Paris.

Discrimination and tolerance are asymmetrical concepts in present day usage. Tolerance has a positive meaning and denotes the attitude of a majority that accepts deviant forms of reasoning or behaviour practiced by a minority.