Crusading EuropePub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.117320
H. Nicholson
{"title":"The Surveys and Accounts of the Templars’ Estates in England and Wales (1308-13)","authors":"H. Nicholson","doi":"10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.117320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.117320","url":null,"abstract":"Although the Templars are most famous for their military activity in the defence of Christendom, they also held extensive estates in western Europe whose purpose was to raise resources to maintain their military commitments.This paper sets out some of the initial findings from my own research on the unpublished records in the National Archives of the UK at Kew, which record the inventories of the Templar houses taken when the Templars were arrested early in January 1308, and the accounts produced by the royal custodians while their estates were in the King’s hands, 1308-13. As this research is at an early stage, the analysis and conclusions are tentative, but they indicate that the Templars’ agricultural production made a substantial contribution to local economies.","PeriodicalId":118630,"journal":{"name":"Crusading Europe","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114551230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crusading EuropePub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117318
G. Lippiatt
{"title":"Worse than All the Infidels. The Albigensian Crusade and the Continuing Call of the East","authors":"G. Lippiatt","doi":"10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117318","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary critics and modern historians have both faulted the Albigensian Crusade, directed against heretics in the south of France, for weakening attempts to recover Jerusalem for Christendom in the early thirteenth century. This essay explores the competition between the Albigensian and Fifth Crusades. Placing these crusades alongside each other, this essay will examine the conversation between them. It is often charged that the armed and eventually royal effort against the Albigensian heretics drained French crusaders and resources from Pope Innocent III’s second great push from 1213 to recapture Jerusalem that eventually led to a negotiated settlement under Emperor Frederick II in 1229—the year of the capitulation of Count Raymond VII of Toulouse in the Treaty of Paris. Certainly the Albigensian Crusade played its part among the European conflicts which distracted potential crusaders from setting out for the Holy Land, but this picture is incomplete. In fact, the correlation between crusade preachers and crusaders who participated in the Albigensian Crusade and the Fifth Crusade suggests that the former may have indirectly strengthened participation in the latter. By contextualising contemporary criticism of the Albigensian Crusades in favour of the drive to the East and examining the participants in and timing of expeditions to the French Midi, Egypt, and Syria, this essay argues that the Albigensian Crusade reinforced as much as distracted from the Fifth Crusade.","PeriodicalId":118630,"journal":{"name":"Crusading Europe","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126411260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crusading EuropePub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.117316
J. France
{"title":"Cutting the Gordian Knot. Urban II and the Impact of the Council of Clermont","authors":"J. France","doi":"10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.117316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.117316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":118630,"journal":{"name":"Crusading Europe","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131446880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crusading EuropePub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.117314
M. Whittow
{"title":"Pirenne, Muhammad, and Bohemond. Before Orientalism","authors":"M. Whittow","doi":"10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.117314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.117314","url":null,"abstract":"Henri Pirenne’s Mahomet et Charlemagne (1937; English translation 1939) is one of the seminal works of history written in the twentieth century. His argument that it was the Arab conquests of the seventh century, not the Germanic invasions of the fourth and fifth that broke the unity of the Mediterranean world remains valid. A world where what is now the Near East made up the core territories of an empire whose periphery lay on the Rhine and Danube was replaced by a new superpower, whose centre lay in Iraq, a much reduced Roman empire (medieval Byzantium) centred on Constantinople, and a new Frankish kingdom with its heartland in what had once been Rome’s Rhineland periphery. Pirenne’s famous dictum, “Without Islam, the Frankish Empire would have probably never existed, and Charlemagne, without Muhammad, would be inconceivable” deserves a place in any dictionary of twentieth-century quotations. The new umma saw the world in terms of the Dar al-Islam and the rest, the Dar alHarb. Even if the latter was not actually an abode of war, it was a space filled with fantastic and exotic barbarities that reinforced the Muslim sense of superiority. The old Roman empire had the hard task of adjusting to reduced circumstances. The Romans on the Bosporus reinvented themselves as a New Israel, a Chosen People, whose embattled circumstances were proof of God’s favour. They were punished for their sins because God cared about them. Only in the west did past perspectives survive. For a Franco-Latin world whose geography was still shaped by the Bible and the texts of classical antiquity the Mediterranean remained unbroken in the imagination if not in reality. Indeed the lack of contact with reality rendered imagined unity easier to preserve. In 1096 an expedition that would come to be seen as the First Crusade marched to the east. Where they were going was not a strange and new world, but the most familiar landscape imaginable; a Biblical world whose names were better known than anywhere other than their most immediate local surroundings. For the likes of Bohemond it was as if Muhammad had not happened. The creation of the Crusader states did not prefigure nineteenth and twentieth century imperialism; still less did Crusader attitudes exemplify what Edward Said dubbed ‘Orientalism’. But the Crusading experience did in due course fundamentally alter the Latin vision of the Near East. By the thirteenth century its inhabitants were no longer seen in uncomplicated terms as ‘our brother Christians in the east’; a new sense of a Europe north and west of the Mediterranean had come into being. To paraphrase Pirenne, “Without the Crusades Europe – the Europe of the European Union – would probably never have existed.”","PeriodicalId":118630,"journal":{"name":"Crusading Europe","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124639568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crusading EuropePub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117315
Guy Perry
{"title":"The Hinge of the Mediterranean. Ḥafṣid Ifrīqiya and Louis IX’s Crusade to Tunis in 1270","authors":"Guy Perry","doi":"10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":118630,"journal":{"name":"Crusading Europe","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124650763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crusading EuropePub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117324
Edward M. Peters
{"title":"Dante’s Crusading Ancestor and the Authority of a Sacred Poem, 1147-1321","authors":"Edward M. Peters","doi":"10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117324","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":118630,"journal":{"name":"Crusading Europe","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121650636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crusading EuropePub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117319
J. Bird
{"title":"How to Implement a Crusade Plan. The Canonries of Saint-Victor of Paris and Saint-Jean-des-Vignes of Soissons and the Defence of Crusaders’ Rights","authors":"J. Bird","doi":"10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":118630,"journal":{"name":"Crusading Europe","volume":"257 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121285307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crusading EuropePub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117321
Timothy Guard
{"title":"Opus caritativum: Crowdfunding the Later Crusades. The English Evidence","authors":"Timothy Guard","doi":"10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.117321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":118630,"journal":{"name":"Crusading Europe","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132766455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}