To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages

367 Pages·2012·3.112 MB·English

by  Nicholas L. Paul

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TO FOLLOW IN
THEIR FOOTSTEPS

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THEIR FOOTSTEPS
THE CRUSADES AND
FAMILY MEMORY IN
THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES
Nicholas L. Paul
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ithaca and London
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Paul, Nicholas, 1977–
To follow in their footsteps : the Crusades and family
memory in the high Middle Ages / Nicholas L. Paul.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8014-5097-6 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Crusades—Influence. 2. Upper class families—
Europe—History—To 1500. 3. Nobility—Europe—
History—To 1500. 4. Families of military personnel—
Europe—History—To 1500. 5. Social history—Medi-
eval, 500–1500. 6. Europe—Social conditions—To
1492. I. Title.
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
Part I. Family Memory: Form and Function
1. Ancestor, Avatar, Crusader 21
2. Relations 55
3. The Fabric of Victory 90
4. Missing Men 134
5. Opening the Gates 171
Conclusions 200
Part II. Two Count-Kings and the Crusading
Past
6. The Fire at Marmoutier 207
7. Triumph at Ripoll 251
Epilogue 295
Appendix 1: Dynastic Narratives
and Crusading Memory 299
Appendix 2: Dynastic Narratives
in Local and Monastic Chronicles 303
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Appendix 3: Description of Paris,
BNF, MS Lat. 5132 304
Appendix 4: Letter of “Clement” in Paris,
BNF, MS Lat. 5132, f. 106 308
Bibliography 309
Index 337
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Illustrations
Figures
1. Returning crusaders present Elisabeth of Thuringia with
her husband’s ring. Shrine of Saint Elisabeth, Saint Elisabeth’s
Church, Marburg. 168
2. Returning crusaders present Elisabeth of Thuringia with
her husband’s ring. Choir window of Saint Elisabeth’s Church,
Marburg. 169
3. Heraclius is humbled before the gates of Jerusalem. Miniature
found in the Sacramentary of Mont-Saint-Michel. New York,
Pierpont Morgan Library M.641, f. 155v 193
4. Parchment strip sewn between ff. 57v and 58r of the
Chronica de gestis consulum Andegavorum of John of
Marmoutier. Cartulary of Saint-Laud. 243
Maps
1. Sites of preservation and display of crusade memorabilia
in the Limousin before 1183 130
2. Sites of dynastic commemoration in Henry II’s domains 214
3. Sites of dynastic commemoration in the Crown of
Aragón-Catalonia 278
Charts
1. Ancestry of Henry II of England 208
2. Ancestry of Alfonso II of Aragón 253
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