Inaugural Digital History and New Directions in Crusade Studies Network
Online
9th March 2023
5PM GMT
The study of the crusades as an historical phenomenon is a complex and challenging area. In order to gain a full understanding of religious conflict in the medieval period, scholars need to collaborate across a range of different source materials from different cultural and religious perspectives in multiple languages, incorporate material and archaelogical knowledge, mapping skills, image digitisation and reconstruction, and textual analysis - sometimes of a very large corpus of materials. This is the first in a series of planned meetings to explore how scholars are and might in future utlise digital skills to unlock a deeper understanding of this period.
Speakers for this first meeting are Anna Gutgarts and Myra Bom on developing the next phase of the Revised Regesta Regni Hierosolimitani (http://crusades-regesta.com/), and Jason Roche on Agent-Based Simulations of the March between Nikaia and the So-Called “Battle of Dorylaion”, 1097.
Leeds International Medieval Congress
July 2022
The Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades sponsored 3 sessions at this year’s International Medieval Congress:
Session: 138 Title: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN NARRATIVES OF THE FIRST CRUSADE
Sponsor: Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades
Organiser: Iain Dyson, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator: Iain Dyson
Paper -a: ‘Mother of mercy, is this the end of Reynald?’: Bordering on the Extreme in the Portrayal of Crusaders (Language: English) Carol Elizabeth Sweetenham, School of Modern Languages & Cultures, University of Warwick / Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Paper -b: Cannibalism as Spectacle in the Chanson d’Antioche (Language: English) Hannah MacKenzie, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Paper -c: One of Us?: Human and Non-Human Categories of Belonging and Exclusion in the Chronicles and Chansons of the First Crusade (Language: English) Sini Kangas, Department of History, Philosophy & Literary Studies, University of Tampere
Session: 623 Title: TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL FRONTIERS IN THE THREE CRUSADING CONTEXTS
Sponsor: Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades
Organiser: Jason T. Roche, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University
Moderator: Katherine J. Lewis, Department of History, English, Linguistics & Music, University of Huddersfield
Paper -a: ‘Faith has vanished, peace has perished’: Re-Constructing the Spiritual Frontiers of the Albigensian Crusade (Language: English) Louis Pulford, Department of History, Lancaster University
Paper -b: Crossing Borders between the Holy Land and Spain: Martin of León as a Preacher of the Third Crusade (Language: English) Alexander Marx, Zentrum für Europäische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Paper -c: Illicit Trade to Preserve Antiquam mercationem across Religious Boundaries during the Baltic Crusades (Language: English) Rasa Mažeika, New College, University of Toronto
Session: 1023 Title: FRONTIER RELATIONSHIPS IN OUTREMER
Sponsor: Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades
Organiser: Hannah MacKenzie, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator: Hannah MacKenzie
Paper -a: Marking Boundaries: The Case of the ‘Jacobites’ in Jerusalem in the 12th-13th Century (Language: English) Maria S. Thomas, Afdeling Kunst en Cultuur, Geschiedenis, Oudheid, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Recipient of a 2022 Templar Heritage Trust Bursary
Paper -b: Divide and Conquer: The Legal Implications of Shared Munāṣafāt Lands between the Early Mamluks and Levantine Crusader States, 1250-1290 (Language: English) Amel Bensalim, Department of History, Princeton University
Paper -c: Frontier Fortresses in Northern Syria (Language: English) Angus Stewart, Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies, University of St Andrews
SSCLE Conference: Crusading Encounters
27th June - 1st July 2022, Royal Holloway University of London
Sessions organised by Philip Booth (Manchester Metropolitan University) and James Doherty (University of Birmingham) under the auspices of the NNSC
Session IV:2: seminar room 2:
Reframing the Context of the First Crusade
Chair: James Doherty (University of Birmingham)
Philip Booth (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘The Desire to Travel to Jerusalem: The Spirit of 11th Century Holy Land Pilgrimage’
Andrew Jotischky (RHUL): ‘Monks and Muslims before the First Crusade’
James Kane (Flinders University): ‘ “You commanded us to follow Christ by carrying crosses”: Pope Urban II and the Origins of the Crusading Cross’
Session V:2: seminar room 2:
Reframing the First Crusade (II)
Chair: Stephen Spencer (King's College London)
Jason Roche (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘Locating the Battle of “Dorylaion” (1097): New Methods, New Discoveries’
James Doherty (University of Birmingham) 'Independent Crusaders?: Thierry of Flanders and the Perception of Armed Pilgrims between the Canonical Crusades, 1104–1186'
Jennifer Markey (Independent Scholar): ‘Encounters with Armenians in the Estoire d’Antioche’
Session VI:2: seminar room 2:
Reframing the First Crusade (III)
Chair: Jay Rubenstein (University of Southern California)
Edward Caddy (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘Reframing the Third Crusade: Crusader Kings, Chroniclers, and Canon Law’
Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University): ‘Reframing Leadership and Authority on the First Crusade’
Simon John (Swansea University): ‘The memorialisation of Godfrey of Bouillon in Brussels and Brabant during the Middle Ages’
Roundtable: Reframing the First Crusade, 1000–1200
Organisers: Philip Booth (Manchester Metropolitan University) and James Doherty (University of Birmingham)
Chair: Philip Booth
Speakers: Jason Roche; James Doherty; Francesca Petrizzo; Nicholas Paul; Fozia Bora (University of Leeds)
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades Fifth Symposium
Nottingham Trent University
Friday 27th May 2022
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-11.00 Session 1 - Chair: Andrew Buck (Royal Holloway)
Jen Pearce (NTU) - Cross-cultural Relationships in the Principality of Antioch: A Reading of the Assises of Antioch
Adam Simmons (NTU) - Reevaluating the 'Ethiopian' Embassy to Western Europe in 1306: A Nubian History
Jan Vandeburie (Leicester) - Crusading and the Cult of Mary: Marian Shrines between Christianity and Islam in the 13th Century
11.00-11.30 – Coffee break
11.30-13.00 – Session 2 - Chair: Cat Gower (NTU)
Jennifer Markey (Independent) - Tancred and Saracon: Conversion, Companionship and Identity in the Estoire
d’Antioche
Michele Wells (KU Leuven) - A Permanent Wound: Physiognomy, Penance, and Reconciliation in Moriaen (ca. 1050-1350)
Kate Arnold (NTU) - Pop and the Palästinalied: a Crusade Song Revived at the Turn of a New Millennium
13.00-14.00 – Lunch
14.00-15.30 – Session 3 - Chair: Nic Morton (NTU)
Thomas Brosset (Lancaster) - Sallies: An Understudied but Decisive Form of Counter-offensive in Jazīran and Syrian Siege Warfare (1097-1192)
Marcello Pacifico (Pegaso) – The Crusade of Richard of Cornwall
Andrew D. Buck (Royal Holloway) - The Historia regum Hierusalem Latinorum ad deplorationem perditionis terrae
sanctae accomodata and the Loss of Jerusalem
15.30-16.00 – Coffee break
16.00-17.00 - Roundtable - New Directions
Natasha Hodgson (NTU), Nic Morton (NTU), James Doherty (Birmingham), Jan Vandeburie (Leicester)
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades January 2022 Roundtable Discussion
Slavery and Slave Trade in the Later Medieval Mediterranean
Online
25th January 2022, 5pm GMT
Chair: Norman Housley (Leicester University)
Contributors: Hannah Barker (Arizona State University), Erin T. Dailey (Leicester University), Ariana N. Myers (Princeton University), Craig Perry (Emory University)
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades November 2021 Seminar
Online via Zoom
17th November 2021, 5PM
ʾƎleni (regent 1507-16), ǝtege and Ethiopia’s only true own Prester John? (Adam Simmons, Nottingham Trent University)
Ecclesiastical Networks and Mass Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the 11th Century (Philip Booth, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades May 2021 Seminar
Online
12th May 2021, 8PM
Crusading violence and emotion in the early thirteenth century (Megan Cassidy-Welch, University of Queensland)
Virtuous or Vicious? An emotional perspective on Richard I's reign (Emily Abercrombie, University of Liverpool)
'Intimate Scripts' in the Chanson de Jérusalem: Another Approach to Crusader Motivation (Stephen Spencer, King's College London)
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades March 2021 Seminar
Online via Microsoft Teams
11th March 2021, 5PM
The Function of Emotions in Villehardouin’s Chroniques de la Conqueste de Constantinople (Holly Dempster-Edwards, University of Leeds)
“No People will Prosper who Appoint a Woman to Rule over Them”: Gender and Government in Muslim Sources for the Crusading Period (Niall Christie, Langara College)
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades February 2021 Seminar
Online via Microsoft Teams
11th February 2021, 5PM
Introduction by Jason T. Roche (Manchester Metropolitan University)
What can the Mongols' interfaith court debates tell us about why Islam and Buddhism succeeded where William of Rubruck and Christianity failed? (Jonathan Brack, Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
What can we learn from the Mongol conversion to Islam in the Thirteenth Century about the conversion of the Seljuk Turks to Islam in the Eleventh and Twelfth centuries? (Nicholas Morton, Nottingham Trent University)
Nomadic Universalism: An Argument for the Continuity of the Imperial Steppe Ideology (Luke Quinn, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Respondent: Timothy May
A video of the session is available in the Useful Resources section.
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades January 2021 Seminar
Online via Zoom
14th January 2021, 5PM
Introduction and NNSC Book Choice by Alan V. Murray (University of Leeds):
Hilary Rhodes, The Crown and the Cross: Burgundy, France, and the Crusades, 1095-1223 (Brepols, 2020)
Loïc Chollet, Les Sarrasins du Nord: Une histoire de la croisade balte par la littérature (XIIe-XVe siècle) (Editions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, 2020)
Making Livonia: Actors and Networks in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region, ed. Anu Mänd and Marek Tamm (Routledge, 2020)
"I can give no better or more authentic account of this"; The Sources and Intellectual Context of Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay’s Historia Albigensis (Louis Pulford, Lancaster University)
Setting the Stage: Aristocratic Performance and the Eastern Theatre of Crusading Conflict (Nicholas Paul, Fordham University)
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades Fourth Symposium
The Crusades: Borders, Margins, and Interfaces
Nottingham Trent University
28th February 2020
9.15-9.45 Registration
9.45 Welcome by Natasha Hodgson (NTU)
10.00-11.30 Session One
Chair: Natasha Hodgson (NTU)
Writing History on the Margins: William of Tyre and the Literary Construction of Outremer (Andrew Buck, University College Dublin)
Bathing in the boundaries of the Holy Land: shared sacred space and Christian convergences at the Jordan? (Philip Booth, MMU)
Fear of the Stranger: native and outsider identities in the rule of Levantine women (Chloe Riggs, NTU)
11.30-11.45 Tea & coffee
11.45-12.45 Session 2
Chair: Jan Vanderburie (University of Leicester)
The Relationship Between the Massacres of the Jewish Communities in 1189 and 1190 and Preaching of the Third Crusade in England (Iain Dyson, University of Leeds)
Border Force? Recruiting for the Third Crusade from the Anglo-Welsh Frontier (Kathryn Hurlock, MMU)
12.45-1.45 Lunch
1.45-3.15 Session 3
Chair: Katherine Lewis (University of Huddersfield)
Seas and Sees: Pisa fights above its weight in the period of the Crusades (Martin Hall, QMW)
Rebellion and Exile: The Revolt and Punishment of Hugh of Jaffa in Latin Christian context (Jamie Doherty, University of Leeds)
'The Wrath of God and the Infamy of Man’: The Venetian Crusade of 1099-1100 (Edward Caddy, QMW)
3.15-3.30 Tea & coffee
3.30-4.30 Session 4
Chair: Alan Murray (University of Leeds)
An ‘Ottoman Fifth Column’? – Ottoman vassals and crusading in the Fifteenth Century Balkans (Robin Shields, RHUL)
Seeing the Unseen: Tracing African Diversity in the Crusader States (Adam Simmons, NTU)
4.30-5.30 Round table and NNSC open meeting
Chair: Natasha Hodgson (NTU)
Jason Roche (MMU)
Alan Murray (University of Leeds)
Katherine Lewis (University of Huddersfield)
Nicholas Morton (NTU)
5.30 pm head for pre-dinner drinks at BrewDog Nottingham, 20-22 Broad St, Nottingham NG1 3AL (about 10 mins walk from NTU)
6.30pm Dinner at Oscar & Rosie's, 8 Stoney St, Nottingham NG1 1LP (about 10 mins walk from station). Pizza place with good vegetarian/vegan options!
Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 2019
The Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades sponsored 2 sessions at the International Medieval Congress this year:
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades Third Symposium
Crusading Identities
Heritage Quay, University of Huddersfield
22nd February 2019
8.45 Arrival
9.00-10.45 Session One: Settlement and Identity
History and identity: the memory of the First Crusade as the origin tradition of the Latin East (Simon John, Swansea University)
Settlement, identity, and memory in the Latin East: some reflections of the relevance of the term “Crusader States” (Andrew Buck, QMUL),
Franks into Frenchmen: the Crusades and settlement as vehicles for cultural identity (Gregory Lippiatt, UEA)
10.45 Tea & coffee
11.00-12.15 Session Two: Late Medieval and Early Modern Crusading Identities
The construction and use of crusader identity in late medieval England (Charlotte Gauthier, RHUL)
“Il sera par vous conbatu le doubté Turcq”: crusading and fifteenth-century L’homme armé masses (Nicolò Ferrari, University of Huddersfield)
How to build a crusader: Torquato Tasso, Rinaldo, and the Estensi as crusaders (Francesca Petrizzo, University of Rome)
12.15-1.00 Lunch (including poster display)
1.00-2.15 Session Three: Warriors and Leaders
Crusading identity in the mausoleum of Bohemond I (Clare Vernon, University of Manchester)
Robert the Monk’s concept of the miles Christi in his Historia Iherosolimitana (Kenneth Coyne, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‘Men of blood: the Church’s textual response to mercenary violence, 1179-1215 (Mark Robinson, NTU)
2.15-2.30 Tea & coffee
2.30-3.45 Session Four: Representing and Revising the Third Crusade
"My dearest friend, Elvida, abbess of Saint Julien”: rethinking gender and identity on the Third Crusade (Hilary Rhodes, University of Leeds)
‘Making a king a better crusader: the revision of Richard I’s identity in Ralph of Coggeshall’s Chronicon Anglicanum (Stephen Spencer, IHR)
”In frenssche bookys this rym is wrought”: creating crusading identity in French and English narrative poetry (Carol Sweetenham University of Warwick)
3.45 Tea & coffee
4.00-5.15 Session Five: Reputation and Identity
“Defending two cradles of Christianity”: the agency of Philaretos Braakhamios and the post-Manzikert contest for Antioch and Edessa (Nathan Websdale, RHUL)
Pirrus and the Siege of Antioch: depictions of a traitor (Jenny Markey, (Independent Scholar)
Hagiographic masculinity: the representation of Simon de Montfort in Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay’s Historia Albigensis (Mark McCabe, University of Huddersfield)
5.15 Closing remarks
5.30 End
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades Second Symposium
The Modern Appropriation of the Crusades
Geoffrey Manton Building 302, Manchester Metropolitan University
9th February 2018
8.45 Arrival. Tea & Coffee
9.00-10.45 Welcome and Session One: Memory and Commemoration
Memories of Crusading (Dr Elizabeth Siberry, Independent Researcher)
The Curious Case of Florina of Burgundy: Gender, Mythmaking and the Crusades (Hilary Rhodes, University of Leeds)
‘Heroes and Martyrs’: the Role of Foreign Crusaders in the Commemorations of the Eighth Centenary of the Conquest of Lisbon (1947) (Dr Pedro Alexandre Guerreiro Martins, Instituto de História Contemporânea – Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
10.45-11.00 Tea & Coffee
11.00-12.15 Session Two : Appropriating the Crusades in Spanish Conflict
El Romancero de la Guerra de Africa and Other Episodes in Colonial Crusading (Prof Adam Knobler, Ruhr Universität Bochum)
From Civil Conflict to Crusade: Mobilization and National Identity in the Spanish Civil War (Dr Mercedes Penalba-Sotorrio, Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘We Will Recover Al-Andalus!’ The Reconquista and Its Shaping of Modern Spain (Chloe Riggs, Royal Holloway, University of London)
12.15-1.00 Lunch
1.00-2.40 Session Three: Appropriating the Crusades in Britain and the USA in the Twentieth Century
Crusading for Socialism, Fighting an Anti-Socialist crusade: British Socialism as a Crusade at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Dr Marcus Morris, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Woodrow Wilson’s Crusade for Democracy: Rhetoric and Reality in the Search for World Order (Dr Graham Cross, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Jerusalem Deliveree: the Resonance of the 1917 British Capture of Jerusalem (Dr Mike Horswell, Royal Holloway, University of London)
The Great Crusade: D-Day and the Liberation of Europe in History and Memory’ (Dr Sam Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University)
2.40-3.00 Tea & Coffee
3.00-4.40 Session Four: Twenty-First Century Appropriations
The Crusades in the Virtual Universe: an Historiographical Study Through Video Games (Dr Fernando Gil, King’s College, University of London)
Kek Vult: Crusader Imagery and Shared Identity in the Alt-Right (Charlotte Gauthier, Royal Holloway, University of London)
The Modern Arabic Historiography of the Crusades: Reliving the Past (Dr Mona Hammad, Independent Researcher)
Islamic State and the Creation of a ‘Crusader’ Narrative (Dr Jason T. Roche, Manchester Metropolitan University)
4.40-5.15 Closing Remarks
Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 2017
The Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades sponsored 8 sessions at the International Medieval Congress this year:
Atlantic Crusades: Crusading Ideas in the European Conquest of the New World(s), 1400-1600
Crusading, Identity, and Otherness, I: Women, Children, and the Old
Crusading, Identity, and Otherness, III: Armies, Fleets, and Courts
Crusading, Masculinities, and Otherness, II: Islamic Perspectives
Crusading, Masculinities, and Otherness, III: Narrative Appropriations
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades Inaugural Symposium
Diversity
Geoffrey Manton LT5, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester
10th February 2017
10.00 Registration, Tea & Coffee
10.30 Keynote Lecture
From Clermont to Mexico: The Changing Goals, Participation and Organisation of Crusading, 11th to 16th Centuries (Alan Murray – Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds)
11.30 Session 1
Bloodless Turks and Sanguine Crusaders: Racial Diversity in William of Malmesbury’s Account Urban II’s Sermon at Clermont (James Titterton, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds)
The Türkmen and the Crusades in Anatolia (Jason Roche, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Session 2
The Diverse Portrayals of Richard the Lionheart in Crusade Narratives (Mark McCabe, University of Huddersfield
The Non-noble Cavalrymen of the Fourth Crusade: The Role of the Mounted Sergeant (Jack Beaman, The University of Nottingham)
1.00-2.00: Lunch in the Atrium
2.00 Session 3
Hiding in plain sight: Providers of medical care during crusades to the Eastern Mediterranean, 1095-1274 (Joanna Phillips, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds)
Diversifying Christianity in the Crusader States and the ordo(s) of Jerusalem (Adam Simmons, Lancaster University)
Session 4
Diverse Articles of Inquiry: Episcopal Censure and the Redemption of English Crusaders (Ian Bass, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Narrative inconsistency in Philippe de Mézières’ accounts of the Alexandria Crusade, 1365 (Timothy Owens, University of St Andrews)
3.30 Roundtable Q&A followed by a Wine Reception
Sponsored by the History Research Centre and the Royal Historical Society