Andrew Buck
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University. Was Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin (2019-22) working on a project called 'Creating Outremer: William of Tyre and the Writing of History in the Latin East'. From 2013-19 I was Associate Lecturer, Teaching Associate, Student Engagement Tutor and co-ordinator for the Centre for the Study of Islam and the West and the Third Crusade Network at QMUL at Queen Mary University of London
My research specialises on the history of the Latin East, with a primary focus so far on the principality of Antioch, as well as the wider study of medieval authority and frontiers, medieval memory, historical writing, and cultural history. I have published a monograph and over a dozen articles or book chapters on the history of the Latin East, the principality of Antioch, and issues of crusading memory and motivation. I am also currently undertaking research on the Chronicon of William of Tyre.
My research specialises on the history of the Latin East, with a primary focus so far on the principality of Antioch, as well as the wider study of medieval authority and frontiers, medieval memory, historical writing, and cultural history. I have published a monograph and over a dozen articles or book chapters on the history of the Latin East, the principality of Antioch, and issues of crusading memory and motivation. I am also currently undertaking research on the Chronicon of William of Tyre.
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The period between the First Crusade and the collapse of the "crusader states" in the eastern Mediterranean was a crucial one for medieval historical writing. From the departure of the earliest crusading armies in 1096 to the Mamlūk conquest of the Latin states in the late thirteenth century, crusading activity, and the settlements it established and aimed to protect, generated a vast textual output, offering rich insights into the historiographical cultures of the Latin West and Latin East. However, modern scholarship on the crusades and the "crusader states" has tended to draw an artificial boundary between the two, even though medieval writers treated their histories as virtually indistinguishable.
This volume places these spheres into dialogue with each other, looking at how individual crusading campaigns and the Frankish settlements in the eastern Mediterranean were depicted and remembered in the central Middle Ages. Its essays cover a geographical range that incorporates England, France, Germany, southern Italy and the Holy Land, and address such topics as gender, emotion, the natural world, crusading as an institution, origin myths, textual reception, forms of storytelling and historical genre. Bringing to the foreground neglected sources, methodologies, events and regions of textual production, the collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.
CONTENTS
The Crusades, the Latin East and Medieval History-Writing: An Introduction - Andrew D. Buck, James H. Kane and Stephen J. Spencer
1. History-Writing and Remembrance in Crusade Letters - Thomas W. Smith
2. A 'swiðe mycel styrung': The First Crusade in Early Vernacular Annals from Anglo-Norman England - James H. Kane
3. To Bargain with God: The Crusade Vow in the Narratives of the First Crusade - Edward J. Caddy
4. 'The Lord has brought eastern riches before you': Battlefield Spoils and Looted Treasure in Narratives of the First Crusade - Connor C. Wilson
5. Foundation and Settlement in Fulcher of Chartres' Historia Hierosolymitana: A Narratological Reading - Katy Mortimer
6. After Ascalon: 'Bartolf of Nangis', Fulcher of Chartres and the Early Years of the Kingdom of Jerusalem - Susan B. Edgington
7. Repurposing a Crusade Chronicle: Peter of Cornwall's Liber Revelationum and the Reception of Fulcher of Chartres' Historia Hierosolymitana in Medieval England - Stephen J. Spencer
8. Between Chronicon and Chanson: William of Tyre, the First Crusade and the Art of Storytelling - Andrew D. Buck
9. History and Politics in the Latin East: William of Tyre and the Composition of the Historia Hierosolymitana - Ivo Wolsing
10. 'When I became a man': Kingship and Masculinity in William of Tyre's Chronicon - Katherine J. Lewis
11. Laments for the Lost City: The Loss of Jerusalem in Western Historical Writing - Katrine Funding Højgaard
12. The Silences of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum 1 - Helen J. Nicholson
13. The Natural and Biblical Landscapes of the Holy Land in Jacques de Vitry's Historia Orientalis - Beth C. Spacey
14. The Masculine Experience and the Experience of Masculinity on the Seventh Crusade in John of Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis - Mark McCabe
15. Writing and Copying History at Acre, c. 1230-91 - Peter Edbury
This book examines how the ruling elites of the principality sought to manage these competing interests in order to maintain Antioch’s existence during the troubled twelfth century, particularly following the death of Prince Bohemond II in 1130. His demise helped to spark renewed interest from Byzantium and the kingdom of Jerusalem, and came at a time of both Islamic resurgence under the Zengids of Aleppo and Mosul, as well as Armenian power growth under the Rupenids. An examination of Antioch’s diplomatic and military endeavours, its internal power structures and its interaction with indigenous peoples, can therefore help to reveal a great deal about how medieval Latins adapted to the demands of their frontiers.
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Articles by Andrew Buck
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The period between the First Crusade and the collapse of the "crusader states" in the eastern Mediterranean was a crucial one for medieval historical writing. From the departure of the earliest crusading armies in 1096 to the Mamlūk conquest of the Latin states in the late thirteenth century, crusading activity, and the settlements it established and aimed to protect, generated a vast textual output, offering rich insights into the historiographical cultures of the Latin West and Latin East. However, modern scholarship on the crusades and the "crusader states" has tended to draw an artificial boundary between the two, even though medieval writers treated their histories as virtually indistinguishable.
This volume places these spheres into dialogue with each other, looking at how individual crusading campaigns and the Frankish settlements in the eastern Mediterranean were depicted and remembered in the central Middle Ages. Its essays cover a geographical range that incorporates England, France, Germany, southern Italy and the Holy Land, and address such topics as gender, emotion, the natural world, crusading as an institution, origin myths, textual reception, forms of storytelling and historical genre. Bringing to the foreground neglected sources, methodologies, events and regions of textual production, the collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.
CONTENTS
The Crusades, the Latin East and Medieval History-Writing: An Introduction - Andrew D. Buck, James H. Kane and Stephen J. Spencer
1. History-Writing and Remembrance in Crusade Letters - Thomas W. Smith
2. A 'swiðe mycel styrung': The First Crusade in Early Vernacular Annals from Anglo-Norman England - James H. Kane
3. To Bargain with God: The Crusade Vow in the Narratives of the First Crusade - Edward J. Caddy
4. 'The Lord has brought eastern riches before you': Battlefield Spoils and Looted Treasure in Narratives of the First Crusade - Connor C. Wilson
5. Foundation and Settlement in Fulcher of Chartres' Historia Hierosolymitana: A Narratological Reading - Katy Mortimer
6. After Ascalon: 'Bartolf of Nangis', Fulcher of Chartres and the Early Years of the Kingdom of Jerusalem - Susan B. Edgington
7. Repurposing a Crusade Chronicle: Peter of Cornwall's Liber Revelationum and the Reception of Fulcher of Chartres' Historia Hierosolymitana in Medieval England - Stephen J. Spencer
8. Between Chronicon and Chanson: William of Tyre, the First Crusade and the Art of Storytelling - Andrew D. Buck
9. History and Politics in the Latin East: William of Tyre and the Composition of the Historia Hierosolymitana - Ivo Wolsing
10. 'When I became a man': Kingship and Masculinity in William of Tyre's Chronicon - Katherine J. Lewis
11. Laments for the Lost City: The Loss of Jerusalem in Western Historical Writing - Katrine Funding Højgaard
12. The Silences of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum 1 - Helen J. Nicholson
13. The Natural and Biblical Landscapes of the Holy Land in Jacques de Vitry's Historia Orientalis - Beth C. Spacey
14. The Masculine Experience and the Experience of Masculinity on the Seventh Crusade in John of Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis - Mark McCabe
15. Writing and Copying History at Acre, c. 1230-91 - Peter Edbury
This book examines how the ruling elites of the principality sought to manage these competing interests in order to maintain Antioch’s existence during the troubled twelfth century, particularly following the death of Prince Bohemond II in 1130. His demise helped to spark renewed interest from Byzantium and the kingdom of Jerusalem, and came at a time of both Islamic resurgence under the Zengids of Aleppo and Mosul, as well as Armenian power growth under the Rupenids. An examination of Antioch’s diplomatic and military endeavours, its internal power structures and its interaction with indigenous peoples, can therefore help to reveal a great deal about how medieval Latins adapted to the demands of their frontiers.
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2016 Islam & the West Lecture: 'Saladin: the Man and the Myth' - Professor Carole Hillenbrand (University of St Andrews)
To be held: 6.30 pm, Thursday 3 March, 2016, Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Campus
One-Day Symposium: ‘Saladin and the Third Crusade’
This symposium represents the inaugural meeting of a new international research network examining the history of the Third Crusade.
Speakers include: Abdul-Rahman Azzam, Peter Edbury, Taef El-Azhari, John Gillingham, Helen Nicholson & Linda Paterson
9.30am – 4.30 pm, Friday 4 March, 2016 (Institute of Historical Research, London)
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Exploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes inspiration from the new ways scholars are looking to trace the dissemination and influence of the memories and narratives surrounding the crusading past in medieval Europe. It contributes to these new directions in crusade studies by offering a more nuanced understanding of the diverse ways in which medieval authors presented events, people and places central to the crusading movement. This volume investigates how the transmission of stories related to suffering, heroism, the miraculous and ideals of masculinity helped to shape ideas of crusading presented in narratives produced in both the Latin East and the West, as well as the importance of Jerusalem in the lyric cultures of southern France, and how the narrative arc of the First Crusade developed from the earliest written and oral responses to the venture.
'This book is a very welcome addition to the new historiography on memory and the crusades. In focusing closely on particular texts and contexts, it brings innovative and important insights into how the crusades were represented and remembered in a variety of ways during the Middle Ages and beyond.'-Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch, University of Queensland