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Writing the early Crusades : text, transmission and memory by Marcus Bull; Damien Kempf; Carol Sweetenham; James Naus; Jay C. Rubenstein; Laura Ashe; Lean Ni Chleirigh; Luigi Russo; Nicholas L. Paul; Peter Frankopan; Steven Biddlecombe; William J. Purkis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A pioneering approach to contemporary historical writing on the First Crusade, looking at the texts as cultural artefacts rather than simply for the evidence they contain.The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, beginning with the so-called'eyewitness'accounts of the crusade and extending to numerous second-hand treatments in prose and verse. From the time when many of these accounts were first assembled in printed form by Jacques Bongars in the early seventeenth century, and even more so since their collective appearance in the great nineteenth-century compendium of crusade texts, the Recueil des historiens des croisades, narrative histories have come to be regarded as the single most important resource for the academic study of the early crusade movement. But our understanding of these texts is still far from satisfactory. This ground-breaking volume draws together the work of an international team of scholars. It tackles the disjuncture between the study of the crusades and the study of medieval history-writing, setting the agenda for future research into historical narratives

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Author

Marcus Bull; Damien Kempf; Carol Sweetenham; James Naus; Jay C. Rubenstein; Laura Ashe; Lean Ni Chleirigh; Luigi Russo; Nicholas L. Paul; Peter Frankopan; Steven Biddlecombe; William J. Purkis

Publisher

Boydell Press, 2014.

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782042808

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Humanities