Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 19th February 2025

Time: 7pm

Venue: Online via Zoom

Description: How medieval societies remembered the protagonists and events of the crusading era represents one of the major developments in crusades scholarship over the last decade. The first part of this paper introduces and synthesises recent work in this direction, outlining the key developments, assessing the various approaches that have been devised and utilised, and tracing the genesis of this historiographical trend. The second part identifies several future avenues of enquiry, including marginalised source types that deserve further scrutiny and some of the theoretical approaches developed in memory studies which have had little bearing on crusade studies. The memorialisation of the Third Crusade in medieval England will serve as a case study.

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Price: Free

Email: Edbury@cardiff.ac.uk

Organiser: Cardiff Branch HA

Lecturer: Dr Stephen Spencer University of Buckingham

Region: Wales

Branch: Cardiff