Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict

The Second International Symposium on Crusade Studies
Saint Louis University
17-20 February 2010

A Crusader

Conference Program

Phase I: Plenary Lectures

All Plenary Lectures will be held in the Pere Marquette Gallery,
Dubourg Hall.

Phase I lectures are free and open to the public.

 

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

3:30 p.m. Registration Begins. Pere Marquette Gallery

4:00 p.m. Welcome
Thomas F. Madden, Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

4:15-5:45 Muslim Treatment of Dhimmis Prior to the First Crusade: A Reality Check
Marina Rustow, Emory University

5:45-6:30 Coffee Service

6:30-8:00 Caffaro of Genoa and the Motives of Early Crusaders
Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London

8:00-10:00 Dinner for Registered Participants and Honored Guests
DuBourg Hall 157

 

Thursday, February 18, 2010

3:30 p.m. Registration. Pere Marquette Room.

4:00-5:30 Islamizing Jerusalem: The Foundation of the Muslim Quarter
and the Creation of the "Via Dolorosa"

Ronnie Ellenblum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

5:30-6:30 Coffee Service

6:30-8:00 Reflection of the Crusades in Medieval Turkish Popular Epics
Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Washington University

8:00-10:00 Dinner for Registered Participants and Honored Guests
DuBourg Hall 157

 

Friday, February 19, 2010

3:30 p.m. Registration. Pere Marquette Room.

4:30-6:00 A Medieval Siege of Troy: The Fight to the Death at Acre,
1189-91

John H. Pryor, University of Sydney

6:00-6:30 Coffee Service

6:30-8:00 Constantinople Conquered: A Comparative Damage Assessment of 1204 and 1453
Michael Angold, University of Edinburgh

8:00-10:00 Dinner for Registered Participants and Honored Guests
DuBourg Hall 157


Phase II: Conference Sessions

All Phase II Sessions will take place in the Pere Marquette Gallery, Room 157 (Dubourg Hall), and the Knights Room (Pius XII Library).

Registration is necessary for Phase II participants and attendees.


Friday, February 19, 2010

10:30-12:00 Lunch for Registered Participants, Hotel Indigo

 

12:30-2:00 Crusading at Sea
Room 157, Dubourg Hall
Presider: John H. Pryor, University of Sydney

Piracy: A Naval Problem in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World
Inas Ahmed Elsayed Abbas, University of Alexandria

The Crusader Fleet: A Missing Actor on the Mediterranean Scene during the Crusader Period
Michael Ehrlich, Bar-Ilan University

The Geopolitics of Crusade: Venetian Trade with Mamluk Egypt and the Crusading League of 1341-45
John Mark Nicovich, William Carey University

 

12:30-2:00 Diplomacy and Peacemaking in the Latin East
Pere Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall
Presider: Walker Reid Cosgrove, Saint Louis University

Why Make Peace? Rationales for Conflict Resolution and Treaty-Signing in the Medieval Latin East
Yvonne Friedman, Bar-Ilan University

The Exchange of Prisoners during the Crusades, c. 1098-1189
Mona Hammad Jahama, University of Jordan

Conflict and Cohabitation: Marriage and Diplomacy between Latins and Cilician Armenians, c. 1145-1253
Natasha Hodgson, Nottingham Trent University

 

2:00-2:30 Coffee Service

 

2:30-4:00 Crusades and the Byzantine World
Room 157, DuBourg Hall
Presider: Michael Angold, University of Edinburgh

Turks on the Hills: The Seljuks of Asia Minor Fighting Crusaders and Byzantium
Roman Shlyakhtin, Central European University

"The Most Munificent of All Princes": Manuel I Comnenus and the Latin East
David Parnell, Saint Louis University

Eustathios of Thessaloniki, the Norman Attack of 1185, and the Cult of St. Demetrius
Catherine Holmes, Oxford University

 

2:30-4:00 Urban II and the Development of Crusade Ideology
Pere Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall
Presider: James Naus, Saint Louis University

The Rhetoric of Reconquest: Pope Urban II and the Populus Christianus
Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech University

Attaining the Pilgrim's Goal: Urban II's Spiritual Rewards for the First Crusade
John Howe, Texas Tech University

What Pope Urban II Understood by Crusading
Paul E. Chevedden, Ctr. for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA

 

4:00-4:30 Coffee Service

4:30-8:00 Phase II Plenary Lectures (see above)

 

Saturday, February 20, 2010

8:00 a.m Registration and Continental Breakfast.
DuBourg Hall

9:00-10:30 The Crusades and their Sources
Pere Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall
Presider: Nicholas Paul, Fordham University

Apocalypse Now? Apocalypticism and the First Crusade Reconsidered
Damien Kempf, University of Liverpool

Suger's Vita Ludovici Grossi and the First Crusade
James Naus, Saint Louis University

Melisende and Majesty in William of Tyre's Historia
Deborah Gerish, Emporia State University

 

9:00-10:30 Contemporary Perspectives on the Crusader States
Room 157, DuBourg Hall
Presider: Marina Rustow, Emory University

Editing and Translating the Book of the Jihad of 'Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106): A Final Report
Niall Christie, Corpus Christi College, Vancouver

A Jewish Counter Discourse: Hebrew Travel Accounts of Crusader Palestine
Martin Jacobs, Washington University

The Emerging View of Crusader Presence in the Oultre-Jourdain
James G. Schryver, University of Minnesota - Morris

 

9:00-10:30 Tactics and Warfare during the Crusades
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
Presider: Alan V. Murray, University of Leeds

King Louis VII on Mount Cadmus during the Second Crusade: A Failure of Leadership?
Laurence W. Marvin, Berry College

Rough Diplomacy in the Crusade of Henry VI
Daniel Webb, Saint Louis University

The River Nile Conquered the Crusaders
Mahmoud Said Omran, University of Alexandria

 

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

 

10:45-12:30 Plenary Session:
Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Contact through the Medium of Crusade
Pere Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall
Presider: Thomas F. Madden, Saint Louis University

Transferring Knowledge between Jews and Christians at the Time of the First Crusade
Eva Haverkamp, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

The Crusades and the Radicalization of Jihad Ideology in Mainstream Sunni Islam
Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith College

War by Word: Insults and Islam in Franciscan Narrative
Christopher MacEvitt, Dartmouth College

 

12:30-1:45 Lunch. The Grand Hall, DuBourg Hall

 

2:00-3:30 Crusading Identity
Pere Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall
Presider: Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London

National Identity, Language, and Internal Conflict in the Armies of the First Crusade
Alan V. Murray, University of Leeds

"A Man Totally Devoted to War and to God": The Spiritualization of Godfrey of Bouillon, 1100-1145
Simon John, Swansea University

The Self under Siege: Ideas of Identity and the "Other" in the Era of the Crusades
Mith Barnes, University of Louisville

 

2:00-3:30 Crusading the Age of Saint Louis
Room 157, DuBourg Hall
Presider: Caroline Smith, Independent Scholar

The Evils of War - Unless It's a Crusade: How John of Garland's De triumphis Ecclesiae (c. 1253) Approached Conflicts of the Day at a Low Point in Western Morale
Martin Hall, University of London

A Crusade without a Pope: Saint Louis's Last Crusade and the Making of Canon Law
Andrew Jones, Saint Louis University

The Papacy and Christian Mercenaries in North Africa
Michael Lower, University of Minnesota

 

2:00-3:30 The First Crusaders
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
Presider: Louis Haas, Middle Tennessee State University

The Adoption Option: Alternate Views of the Obligations Confirmed between Alexios I, Count Stephen of Blois, and the Other Crusading Princes at Constantinople
Kimberly LoPrete, National University of Ireland Galway

Baldwin versus Tancred: The Acquisition of Resources and the Strain of Crusading
Koen Roelandts, Saint Louis University

William the Carpenter and the Usefulness of the Internet
Adam Bishop, University of Toronto

 

3:30-4:00 Coffee Service

 

4:00-5:30 The Evolution of Holy War
Pere Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall
Presider: Steven Schoenig, S.J., Saint Louis University

Mission War and the Prehistory of the Crusades
Burnam W. Reynolds, Asbury College

Gregory VII and the Idea of a Military-Religious Order
Paul Crawford, California University of Pennsylvania

Pilgrimage and Crusading Rites
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College

 

4:00-5:30 The Later Crusades
Room 157, DuBourg Hall
Presider: Damian J. Smith, Saint Louis University

Visionary Intellectual or Ordinary Knight? The Early Career of Philip of Mézières
Anne Romine, Saint Louis University

The Last Crusade in Medieval Spain: the War for Granada (1482-1492)
Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, Washington University

Securing the Cruzada: The Spanish/Papal Negotiations for the Bull of Crusade after the Council of Trent
Patrick J. O'Banion, Lindenwood University

 

4:00-5:30 The Crusades and Monastic Spirituality
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
Presider: Vincent Ryan, Saint Louis University

The Doctrine of Redemption in Crusade Preaching
C. Matthew Phillips, Concordia University

Ecclesiastical Chivalry: A New Model of the Military Orders
Sam Conedera, S.J., Fordham University

Crusading in a Cistercian Monastery: Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum
William Purkis, University of Birmingham

 

6:00 Cocktails. The Great Hall, DuBourg Hall

7:00 Banquet. The Great Hall, DuBourg Hall

 

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