Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity

Contents

contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Crusading and the Work of Memory, Past and Present 1 Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager part one: remembrance and response 1 Memory, Wonder, and Desire in the Travels of Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Battuta 29 Christine Chism 2 Constructing Memories of Martyrdom: Contrasting Portrayals of Martyrdom in the Hebrew Narratives of the First and Second Crusade 50 Chaviva Levin 3 Lambert of Saint-Omer and the Apocalyptic First Crusade 69 Jay Rubenstein part two: sites and structures: cities, buildings, and bodies 4 Remembering the Crusades in the Fabric of Buildings: Preliminary Thoughts about Alternating Voussoirs 99 Jerrilynn Dodds 5 Commemorating the Fall of Jerusalem: Remembering the First Crusade in Text, Liturgy, and Image 125 Jaroslav Folda vi Contents 6 Erasing the Body: History and Memory in Medieval Siege Poetry 146 Suzanne Conklin Akbari 7 The Servile Mother: Jerusalem as Woman in the Era of the Crusades 174 David Morris part three: institutional memory and community identity 8 Saladin in Sunni and Shi’a Memories 197 Mohamed El-Moctar 9 Paul the Martyr and Venetian Memories of the Fourth Crusade 215 David M. Perry 10 Aspects of Hospitaller and Templar Memory 233 Jonathan Riley-Smith 11 Visual Self-Fashioning and the Seals of the Knights Hospitaller in England 252 Laura J. Whatley List of Contributors 271 Index 277 ...