Medievalists.net » Second Crusade http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval Lisbon: Castelo de São Jorge http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/10/medieval-lisbon-castelo-de-sao-jorge/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/10/medieval-lisbon-castelo-de-sao-jorge/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:07:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61688 Above Lisbon’s skyline of colourful tiled houses and red roofs lies Castelo de São Jorge, a dominating, but beautiful, 11th century fortress in the heart of this vibrant city...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/10/medieval-lisbon-castelo-de-sao-jorge/feed/ 0 Access is Power: Financing the Second Crusade in France http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/01/access-power-financing-second-crusade-france/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/01/access-power-financing-second-crusade-france/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2015 23:39:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=55128 I will suggest an explanation for why historians have been slow to use land charters as a primary source for the history of the crusades.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/01/access-power-financing-second-crusade-france/feed/ 0 Anatomy of a Crusade: The De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi and the Lisbon Crusade of 1147 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/02/anatomy-crusade-de-expugnatione-lyxbonensi-lisbon-crusade-1147/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/02/anatomy-crusade-de-expugnatione-lyxbonensi-lisbon-crusade-1147/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:54:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53859 This paper will argue that the author crafted the speeches largely after the fact, and that Raol was able to graft ecclesiastical crusade theory onto the siege. In effect, he was able to marry a military success to the growing body of crusade propaganda.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/02/anatomy-crusade-de-expugnatione-lyxbonensi-lisbon-crusade-1147/feed/ 0 Natural conditions in the Carpathian Basin of the middle ages http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/natural-conditions-in-the-carpathian-basin-of-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/natural-conditions-in-the-carpathian-basin-of-the-middle-ages/#comments Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:01:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47559 The analysis of natural conditions is a new field in Hungarian medieval research. This field could only come into existence with the spread of new sources of research, and with the need of drawing the most realistic picture of medieval living conditions with the help of more - previously ignored - data and facts. This field of research may have a special meaning as according to sources of the age, the Carpathian Basin was one of the natural Paradises of Medieval Europe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/natural-conditions-in-the-carpathian-basin-of-the-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Essential and despised: Images of women in the First and Second Crusades, 1095-1148 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/02/essential-and-despised-images-of-women-in-the-first-and-second-crusades-1095-1148/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/02/essential-and-despised-images-of-women-in-the-first-and-second-crusades-1095-1148/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:35:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40261 The image of women in the First and Second Crusades was inherently dualistic and oppositional. The evidence shows women who were vigorous and active participants in the crusades.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/02/essential-and-despised-images-of-women-in-the-first-and-second-crusades-1095-1148/feed/ 0 Hungary and the Second Crusade http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/20/hungary-and-the-second-crusade/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/20/hungary-and-the-second-crusade/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:25:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40004 The aim of the present study is to survey and analyze the role played by Hungary during the Second Crusade and through this scholarly goal it is to bridge the gap which can be observed in Hungarian historiography.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/20/hungary-and-the-second-crusade/feed/ 0 The Wendish Crusade of 1147 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/17/the-wendish-crusade-of-1147/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/17/the-wendish-crusade-of-1147/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:14:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39266 The so-called Wendish Crusade of 1147 was actually part of the Second Crusade of the same time period. It was fought on German soil, largely by Saxon Germans (some Danes as well) against the pagan tribes of Wends

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/17/the-wendish-crusade-of-1147/feed/ 0 The papacy and the crusaders in the East, 1100-1160 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/26/the-papacy-and-the-crusaders-in-the-east-1100-1160/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/26/the-papacy-and-the-crusaders-in-the-east-1100-1160/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:28:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35133 This dissertation attempts to illuminate papal policy towards the Crusaders in the East by an analysis of the relationships of: 1) the Byzantine Empire to the Papacy and the Crusaders; 2) the Papacy to the spiritual and temporal powers of the Latin Orient; 3) the Papacy to the crusade movement in Europe and to Christendom as a whole

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/26/the-papacy-and-the-crusaders-in-the-east-1100-1160/feed/ 0 Christian Society on the Second Crusade: Religious Practices in the De expugnatione Lyxbonensi http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/05/christian-society-on-the-second-crusade-religious-practices-in-the-de-expugnatione-lyxbonensi/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/05/christian-society-on-the-second-crusade-religious-practices-in-the-de-expugnatione-lyxbonensi/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:42:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26952 Throop examines an Anglo-Norman account of the conquest of Lisbon in 1147, De expugnatione Lyxbonensi, to see what religious practices we see in the text, including lay piety and the implications for crusading.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/05/christian-society-on-the-second-crusade-religious-practices-in-the-de-expugnatione-lyxbonensi/feed/ 0 Second Crusade http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/30/second-crusade/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/30/second-crusade/#comments Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:51:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23467 Articles about the Second Crusade: Do We Know What We Think We Know? Making Assumptions About Eleanor of Aquitaine, by RaGena C. DeAragon Looking Back on the Second Crusade: Some Late Twelfth-Century English Perspectives, by Peter Edbury The Origin of the Second Crusade, by George Ferzoco The “Wild Beast from the West”: Immediate Literary Reactions in […]

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