Tales of the Crusaders Remembering the Crusades in Britain
Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes that offer windows into a newly emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Together these volumes examine the reasons behind the enduring resonance of the crusades and present the memory of crusading in the modern period as a productive, exciting, and much needed area of investigation.
Crusading was a part of the rich tapestry of family history, with tales of crusading developed as evidence of heroic endeavour to enhance family prestige. Lists of crusaders were published to satisfy this market and heraldry was a visible means of displaying such lineage. Drawing on extensive research and previously untapped sources, this book charts continuing British interest in the crusades, focusing on the nineteenth century. The volume discusses what was available to read on the subject and how this was discussed in numerous journals. Set in the British context of growing local and regional interest in history and archaeology, the study also considers the physical artefacts associated with the crusades.
Tales of the Crusaders Remembering the Crusades in Britain is the ideal resource for students and scholars of the history of memory and crusades history in a British context.
Elizabeth Siberry is the author of The New Crusaders (2000) and a range of articles about the way in which the crusades and crusaders have been remembered, particularly in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain.
ENGAGING THE CRUSADES
THE MEMORY AND LEGACY OF THE CRUSADES
SERIES EDITORS
JONATHAN PHILLIPS & MIKE HORSWELL
Engaging the Crusades
The Memory and Legacy of Crusading
Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes that offer initial windows into the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries, demonstrating that the memory of the crusades is an important and emerging subject. Together, these studies suggest that the memory of the crusades, in the modern period, is a productive, exciting, and much needed area of investigation.
Series Editors: Jonathan Phillips and Mike Horswell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
In this series:
Controversial Histories Current Views on the Crusades
Engaging the Crusades, Volume Three
Edited by Felix Hinz and Johannes Meyer-Hamme
The Making of Crusading Heroes and Villains
Engaging the Crusades, Volume Four
Edited by Mike Horswell and Kristin Skottki
Playing the Crusades
Engaging the Crusades, Volume Five
Edited by Robert Houghton
Tales of the Crusaders Remembering the Crusades in Britain
Engaging the Crusades, Volume Six
Elizabeth Siberry
For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Engaging-the-Crusades/book-series/ETC
Tales of the Crusaders Remembering the Crusades in Britain
Engaging the Crusades, Volume Six
Elizabeth Siberry
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Names: Siberry, Elizabeth, author.
Title: Tales of the Crusaders: remembering the
Crusades in Britain / Elizabeth Siberry.
Other titles: Remembering the Crusades in Britain
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, [2021] |
Series: Engaging the Crusades; 6 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020049612 | ISBN 9780367265243 (hardback) |
ISBN 9780429293641 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: CrusadesHistoriography. | Crusades in literature. |
MedievalismGreat BritainHistory19th century. |
MemorySocial aspectsGreat Britain.
Classification: LCC D156.58 .S535 2021 | DDC 909.07dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020049612
ISBN: 978-0-367-26524-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-75500-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-29364-1 (ebk)
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Contents
In the course of researching and writing this book, I have incurred many debts of gratitude. Mike Horswell and Adam Knobler have been very generous with their time in reading and commenting on draft chapters and I have also benefitted from informal discussions with them in the margins of conferences and in exchanges of emails, as well, of course, as reading and re-reading their important publications. Kathryn Hurlock has also been very helpful, drawing on her extensive knowledge of crusading and crusaders. And I continue to benefit, even four years after his death, from the wisdom and support shown to me by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith, who was not only my research supervisor but also a great supporter of my subsequent crusading endeavours.
The final stages of writing this book took place under the strange circumstances of the COVID-19 lockdown and in the aftermath of Storm Dennis, which flooded my house in Wales and necessitated the transport of many boxes of books and notes to an alternative study in London. I have therefore relied greatly on email exchanges with individuals, following up queries on various subjects, from crusading pageants to crossed-legs effigies in parish churches throughout the country. All have been most patient with my questions and added significantly to my knowledge and understanding.
I have also been grateful for the help of library staff, particularly in the London Library, which operated a postal service at the height of lockdown and reopened in early July. Specific thanks are noted in the text and footnotes.
In 1825, Sir Walter Scott published Tales of the Crusaders, two historical novels titled The Betrothed and The Talisman. Both are set at the time of the Third Crusade and they were always conceived as a pair looking at the impact of crusading from different angles the former telling the story of Eveline Berenger, betrothed to the absent crusader Hugh de Lacy, and the latter the adventures of the Scottish crusading knight, Sir Kenneth, later identified as David, Earl of Huntingdon. Both books and Scotts other novel set against the background of the Third Crusade,
