๐โจ #newissue out now!
Crusades, Volume 24, Issue 2 (2025)
๐ Explore the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcru20/c...
#crusades #middleages #history #sscle #crusadingstudies #medievalhistory #historiography #newissue #scholarship
For todayโs #ManuscriptMonday we revisit the moment that crystallised crusading memory: Pope Urban II preaching the Crusade at Clermont, as depicted in the 15th-century illumination from Sรฉbastien Mamerotโs Les passages dโOutremer.
(BnF, Franรงais 5594, f. 19)
For todayโs #ManuscriptMonday we sail to Egypt with a vivid scene of the disembarkation of Louis IX at Damietta, as imagined in a 16th-century illumination.
(BnF, Franรงais 24948, f. 56v)
#medieval #middleages #manuscript #illumination #medievalart #crusades #louisIX #egypt
๐ #newrelease โ Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (ed.),
Les discours sur la croisade. Mรฉmoire, fiction, recours ร lโantique, rhรฉtorique et idรฉologie (XIIeโXVIe siรจcle) โ @brepols.net 2026 (Recherches sur les Rรฉceptions de lโAntiquitรฉ, vol. 5)
For todayโs #manuscriptmonday, we will take a look at the โLivre des Assises de la baisse Courtโ of the Kingdom of Cyprus.
(Mรผnchen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.gall. 51)
For todayโs #manuscriptmonday we will take another look at โLi rommans de Godefroy de Buillon et de Salehadin.โ The illustration depicts the Siege of Antioch by Kerbogha in 1098.
(BnF, Franรงais 22495, 50v.)
๐ #newrelease โ Ordines Militares. Colloquia Torunensia Historica
Yearbook for the Study of the Military Orders
Vol. 30 (2025)
Open access issue:
apcz.umk.pl/OM/issue/vie...
Studies and Articles from the 22nd Ordines Militares Conference
Featured today is the author presenting his Gestorum Rhodie obsidionis commentarii to the Grand Master Pierre dโAubusson.
[BnF, Latin 6067, fol. 3v]
๐ For #ManuscriptMonday, we turn to a luxury codex commissioned by Guillaume Caoursin, vice-chancellor of the Order of the Knights of St John in the last quarter of the XV century.
#sscle #middleages #medieval #crusade #crusades #latineast #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #art #illumination #fourthcrusade #Constantinople
๐ For #MonumentMonday, weโre taking another look at the 15th-century chronicle Passages d'Outremer by Sรฉbastien Mamerot. Featured today is an illustration of the fleet of the Fourth Crusade (1202โ1204) before the walls of Constantinople โ๏ธ๐ฐ
(BnF: Franรงais 5594, fol. 217r)
๐ #newrelease โ Aleksander Pluskowski, Guillermo Garcรญa-Contreras & Michelle Alexander (eds.)
Landscapes of (Re)Conquest. Frontier Dynamics in Medieval Iberia and Occitania
(Oxbow Books, 2025) โ Open Access
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.36...
doi.org/10.2307/jj.3...
๐ #newrelease โ Aleksander Pluskowski
The Black Cross. A History of the Baltic Crusades
(Yale University Press, 2026)
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Registration for the SSCLE Conference in Porto is now open ๐๐
You can register at: www.crusadespayment.online
For the first #MonumentMonday of the new year, we present the Templar complex of San Bevignate in Umbria. Inside the church are a number of beautiful frescoes related to the knightly order.
(Pics credit: Wikimedia Commons)
In the spirit of this illumination, where banquet, celebration and the staging of the past converge, the SSCLE committee extends its warmest seasonal wishes and looks forward to reconnecting in the new year, with many forthcoming initiatives and projects.
๐ For todayโs #ManuscriptMonday, the Banquet of Charles V the Wise (Paris, BnF, Franรงais 2813, f. 473v), a late fourteenth-century Parisian miniature, depicts the king presiding over a sumptuous feast while his guests are entertained by a theatrical re-enactment of the Crusades.
๐๏ธโ๏ธ๐ก๏ธ๐ถ Some of you might remember todayโs object for #materialculturemonday from the announcement of the 11th SSCLE Conference in Porto next year. It is a coffered ceiling panel dating from the first half of the 14th century.
(Paris, Bibliothรจque nationale de France, Dรฉpartement des manuscrits, Franรงais 9084, f. 307v โ parchment, 418 ff., 370 ร 270 mm; produced in Acre)
#sscle #middleages #medieval #crusades #latineast #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #illumination #jerusalem #bohemondIII #raymondIII #guillaumedetyr
๐ For todayโs #ManuscriptMonday, here is a remarkable illumination showing Bohemond III of Antioch and Raymond III of Tripoli riding into Jerusalem, from a copy of the Chronique de Guillaume de Tyr et de ses continuateurs.
๐ Available here in Open Access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
๐ #newrelease โ Magnus Ressel & Emir O. Filipoviฤ (eds.)
Companion to the Later Crusades (1400โ1700)
(De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2026) โ Open Access
#crusades #thirdcrusade #medievalhistory #medievalstudies #academicpublishing #newbook #boydellpress #history
Contributors include Ane L. Bysted, Daniel Franke, Helen J. Nicholson, James Naus, Jessalynn Bird, John D. Hosler, John France, Jonathan P. Phillips, Jonathan Rubin, Katrine Funding Hรธjgaard, Stephen Bennett, Stephen J. Spencer, and Thomas W. Smith.
Contributors also engage with communication theory, the history of emotions, textual criticism, historiography, archaeology, and topography, offering a timely reassessment of this pivotal historical event.
Chapters explore causes, organization, participants, military progress, and the short- and long-term outcomes of the Third Crusade.
