What remains: women, relics and remembrance in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade

Lester, Anne E.

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“…40 In 1205, gifts followed from several men of the upper aristocracy who sent relics to their spouses and kin, which were in turn donated to French cathedrals, monastic houses and local chapels. 41 Louis, count of Blois and one of the leaders of the crusade, probably employed one of his three chaplains to carry the relics of Sts Anne, Peter and Andrew to his wife Catherine, who then bestowed them on Chartres and Beauvais cathedrals in return for the communities' commemorations. 42 Louis also sent a tablet reliquary to the monks of Clairvaux, the great Cistercian abbey from which many crusaders had departed.…”

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Translation and Appropriation: Greek Relics in the Latin West in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade

Lester

2017

Stud. Church hist.

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Following the fall of Constantinople to French, Flemish and Venetian forces at the conclusion of the Fourth Crusade, an unprecedented number of relics and other holy objects poured into the West between 1204 and c.1240. Sent as personal and diplomatic gifts, most holy objects moved in the open, with letters of authentication and identification, and not (as has often been suggested) as sacred theft. This article traces the work of translation, carried out by clerics, chaplains, monks, and laymen and women, and the mechanisms of appropriation that gave meaning to these objects in their new devotional contexts. Relics were demanding things; they needed to be enshrined, venerated, described and contextualized, and their movements needed to be accounted for and included within a broader Christian narrative that served to anchor the crusade movement to the apostolic past and to Christ's material presence in the West. Moreover, the materiality of the relics that moved from Constantinople was an important part of their significance and shaped devotional practices and connections, bridging differences between Greek and Latin culture and fostering conceptions of the material that facilitated other acts of Christian translation in the centuries to come.

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Translation and Appropriation: Greek Relics in the Latin West in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade

Lester

2017

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“… 9. Lymberopoulou 2012, 136–8; Paul 2012, 90–133, and 2018, 520–32; Lester 2014, 311–28, and 2016, 73–94; Munns 2016, 223–48; Bibby 2020, 175–202. …”

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“… 12. See especially Paul 2012; Lester 2014, 311–28; Cassidy-Welch 2016 and 2019; Hurlock 2017, 15–27. See also Brenner et al 2013; Van Houts 2013. …”

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Battling the Lion: Visual Commemorations of Crusade in Twelfth- And Thirteenth-Century Seals From the British Isles

Reynolds

2023

Antiq. J.

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This article examines a group of five surviving twelfth- and thirteenth-century wax seal impressions from the British Isles that depict a scene of an armed knight in combat with a lion. This seal motif has tenuously been linked with crusading in the past, and so this paper seeks to address the connections between the sigillants and crusade, as well as the significance of commemoration of crusade culture on medieval seals. It highlights numerous links between this specific design and crusading experiences, literature and allegory. This paper focuses on an aspect of the medieval memory of crusade and the means of displaying chivalric, crusading identities within literate culture (on charters and letters) and in personal adornment.

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Possession: Sacred Crusading Treasure in the Material Vernacular

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What remains: women, relics and remembrance in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade

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Translation and Appropriation: Greek Relics in the Latin West in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade

Translation and Appropriation: Greek Relics in the Latin West in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade

Battling the Lion: Visual Commemorations of Crusade in Twelfth- And Thirteenth-Century Seals From the British Isles

Possession: Sacred Crusading Treasure in the Material Vernacular

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