...Joshua C. Birk This essay provides an account of the uncomfortable discrepancies in the way Muslim conversion is depicted among the early Latin histories of the First Crusade. Local contexts within western Europe shaped fundamentally different views of the Crusades. An author writing from within...

...Lee Manion This essay addresses questions about genre, periodization, and conversion in early modern England by examining changes to the crusading romance. Despite their perceived Catholic leanings, the crusading romance and the romance in general were subsumed into a larger set of “heroical...

... document written immediately after Latin Christian armies seized control of the holy city. This article examines the text’s remarkable interest in autobiography and explores the resonance which crusading, early crusading narrative, Islamic presence, and Mediterranean voyaging had upon the pilgrim genre...

... events are brought within the economy of salvation history, serving as threads in a larger fabric of the narration of the past. In the construction of this historical web, monumental objects play an important role. In the thirteenth-century Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César , copied at the Crusader...

... a different tone than the one found in contemporary narratives of Franciscan martyrdom in Morocco or in the language of the crusading movement. Diplomacy, however, did not so much represent an alternative to expressions of religious violence, as a complement to the overall goals and aspirations of the Roman...

... in these questions. It is thus to the origins and history of this story that we now turn. Jewish martyrdom: Its sources and effects The origins of the Prioress’s Tale, and of many of the topoi of antisemitism, emerge from the events surrounding the First Crusade of 1096. As some of the crusaders moved down...

... of metaphor may help us do what we need, to both critique periodization and revise it. In the remainder of this essay, I seek to describe multiple and inter- secting temporalities that exist in 1453, and a sequence of foreshadowings and aftershocks, ranging from the Fourth Crusade in 1204...

... 8. Crusades 9. Visual culture 10. Music Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37:1, Winter 2007 © 2007 by Duke University Press 1. Editions and translations Andrews, Walter G., Najaat Black, and Mehmet Kalpakli, trans...

... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Reference 3. Biographical studies 4. Medicine and science 5. Race and otherness 6. Jewish studies 7. Crusading 8. Theological...

..., to represent Solomon s Temple, the name given by crusaders to the al-Aqsa Mosque; the Probatica Piscina (Pool of Bethesda) miracle site, drawn in plummet (lead point) as a small circle that has not subsequently been lined over in ink; and the hos- pitale, or Hospital of St. John, where pilgrims would have...

... contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Authorship, textuality, reception 3. Church, reform, and devotion 4. Crusades 5. Warfare 6. Islamic studies 7. Race and ethnicity 8. Science, technology, and medicine 182 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.1...

... content to explain their widespread pres- ence by reference to their function in crusading propaganda, where their monstrous presence serves as both a call to arms and an uncomplicated antithesis to Christian identity. When a medieval text declares that in the Holy...

.... Crusades 7. Jewish studies 8. Saints and religious professions Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 48:1, January 2018 DOI 10.1215/10829636-4280900  © 2018 by Duke University Press 1. Editions and translations Bèze, Théodore de. Correspondance de...

...-century crusaders were battling in the Middle East, Spain, and southern Italy. Occasionally, however, they refer to popula- 82 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.1 / 2001 JMEMS31.1-04 Kinoshita 2/26/01 6:59 PM Page 83 tions like the Saxons, Slavs...

... and Egeria; then after about 1100 the crusade writings, such as Fulcher of Chartres’s Historia Hierosolymitana, or Joinville’s Vie de Saint Louis;2 and finally, from the thirteenth century, the memoirs of such real and imaginary far-travelers as William of Rubruck, Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenone...

..., “St. Peter Did Not Do Thus”; Anthony Grafton, “Church History in Early Modern Europe: Tradition and Innovation,” in Sacred History , ed. Van Liere, Ditchfield, and Louthan, 3–26, at 24. 67 Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades , 188–89. 66 Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades , 188, 191...

... and historiography 5. Identity formations 6. Jewish studies 7. Crusades 8. Waging war, making peace 9. Gender and the works of women 10. The natural world, science, and medicine 11...

..., and social anthropology. Above all, I hope that this volume will spark discussion among scholars interested in the Mediterranean World in the era before the Atlantic World — and the ener- gies it unleashed — surpassed it as a “world economy.” Franciscans and crusaders are, of course, well known...

... of the two surviving Frankish colonies originally created in the wake of the Fourth Crusaders’ conquest of Constantinople in 1204.41 In the first half of the four- teenth century, Achaea, the duchy of Athens, and the Byzantine empire were key pieces in a complex and ever-shifting kaleidescope of power...

... — but the practice returned in full force during the centuries of the Crusades, now redefined along a confessional bipolarity. Indeed, it was through the very act of slaving that the circumsized and the baptized, as the case may be, affirmed their religion and identity, since in both Islam and Christianity...