Megan Cassidy‐welch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Cassidy‐welch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassidy‐welch |
| SIGNATURE | WELCH M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5451-7724 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Practising Shame
Wild lands and the southern sun
Thirteenth-century crusading activity in north Africa reflected many connections between conflict, place and claims to territorial ownership. Crusading encounters with the Almohads and Marinids, Zirids and Hafsids, the Ayyubids and Mamluks, were also encounters with the landscapes and histories of a vast region already part of the biblical and Christian pasts to which crusaders themselves were sometimes imaginatively attached. This paper will con…
Introduction
This essay introduces a special issue examining various aspects of crusading landscapes as sites of conflict and encounter. It makes a case for the value of repositioning landscapes as primary scholarly focal points in the scholarship of the crusades and related historical conflicts and situates this argument in the context of recent approaches in the fields of landscape and environmental history and crusades studies
Entangling Medieval Emotions and Gender in Mediterranean History
This essay introduces a group of essays that together explore the entanglement of gender and emotions in the medieval period, with a special interest in the Mediterranean. Focusing on the practices of crusading, pilgrimage, friendship and diplomacy from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, the essays reveal some of the many modes of human connection across the Mediterranean and beyond. These connections were informed by multiple factors – politi…
Reconnaître et délimiter l’espace localement au Moyen Âge
This is a welcome collection clearly focused on the delineation of local space in urban and regional medieval contexts. Attentive especially to French, Portuguese and Catalonian examples, the chapters together offer a number of case-studies that demonstrate clearly the precise yet diverse means of shaping boundaries during (mostly) the high Middle Ages. The collection, edited by Nacima Baron, Stéphane Boissellier, François Clément and Flocel Saba…
Before trauma
Can ‘trauma’ be an appropriate or insightful category of historical analysis for the study of the medieval past? In this article I consider how trauma theory can expose links between representation, memory and violence during the period of the crusades. I focus on one case study of ‘collective trauma’ – the capture of a relic of the True Cross by the army of Saladin at the battle of Hattin in 1187. According to Christian commentators, the battle …
O Damietta’
The Egyptian port city of Damietta was a place which occupied a brief but important position in the crusading imaginary of the thirteenth century. This article examines how this city was used both to communicate particular memories of war experience and to lay down future patterns of remembrance. Processes of eyewitnessing, establishing the wider meaning of war, creating a warrior tradition and affirming the value of location or place were all wa…
DuncanRobertson
LarissaTracy
Memory and interpretation
This article describes the connection between studies of memory and the history of the crusades. The authors argue that integrating memory into crusades scholarship offers new ways of exploring the aftermath of war, the construction of cultural memory, the role of women and families in this process, and the crusading movement itself. The article draws on and extends recent trends in crusade scholarship that understand the crusades as a broad reli…
Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France
Journal Article Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France Get access Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France. Edited by Meredith Cohen and Justine Firnhaber-Baker. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing. 2010. xiii + 237 pp. £55.00 ISBN: 978 0 7546 6757 5. Megan Cassidy-Welch Megan Cassidy-Welch Monash University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Histor…
Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150–1400
This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiographic
Didactic Uses of Imprisonment and Captivity
In the previous chapter I looked at how inquisitors imagined the protection of Christian souls through the use of the prison and its careful mapping as a space that was to be feared. In this manner, inquisitors were more generally concerned to mark out the boundaries of heretical and anti- heretical behaviours, in order to encourage confession and penitence. I also suggested that the same space of imprisonment could be appropriated by prisoners a…
Images of Blood in the Historia Albigensis of Pierre des Vaux‐de‐Cernay
This article will provide an analysis of the various ways in which blood appears in the Historia Albigensis of the Cistercian historian, Pierre des Vaux‐de‐Cernay. This history, written between 1213 and 1218, is well‐known for both its narrative of the first stage of the crusade against the heretics of Languedoc and for its eulogistic treatment of Simon de Montfort. Historians have also mined this chronicle for information about the various heret…
Prison and sacrament in the cult of saints
This article analyses the changing visual representation of St Barbara during the later middle ages. The article identifies a shift in St Barbara's iconography: whereas earlier medieval representations of the saint almost always show her with her prison tower, a number of fifteenth-century representations show the saint holding a chalice and host. The article traces how and why this shift occurred. In particular, the article explores the ways in …
Testimonies from a Fourteenth-Century Prison
This article explores the ways in which the inhabitants of early fourteenthcentury Albi fashioned individual and collective truths about their hated bishop, Bernard de Castanet. The article primarily focuses on a manuscript now held in the Vatican Secret Archive (Collectorie 404). This manuscript contains the written testimonies of those who asserted that among other nefarious activities, Castanet had improperly used imprisonment and torture agai…
Before trauma
Can ‘trauma’ be an appropriate or insightful category of historical analysis for the study of the medieval past? In this article I consider how trauma theory can expose links between representation, memory and violence during the period of the crusades. I focus on one case study of ‘collective trauma’ – the capture of a relic of the True Cross by the army of Saladin at the battle of Hattin in 1187. According to Christian commentators, the battle …
O Damietta’
The Egyptian port city of Damietta was a place which occupied a brief but important position in the crusading imaginary of the thirteenth century. This article examines how this city was used both to communicate particular memories of war experience and to lay down future patterns of remembrance. Processes of eyewitnessing, establishing the wider meaning of war, creating a warrior tradition and affirming the value of location or place were all wa…
Prison and sacrament in the cult of saints
This article analyses the changing visual representation of St Barbara during the later middle ages. The article identifies a shift in St Barbara's iconography: whereas earlier medieval representations of the saint almost always show her with her prison tower, a number of fifteenth-century representations show the saint holding a chalice and host. The article traces how and why this shift occurred. In particular, the article explores the ways in …
Testimonies from a Fourteenth-Century Prison
This article explores the ways in which the inhabitants of early fourteenthcentury Albi fashioned individual and collective truths about their hated bishop, Bernard de Castanet. The article primarily focuses on a manuscript now held in the Vatican Secret Archive (Collectorie 404). This manuscript contains the written testimonies of those who asserted that among other nefarious activities, Castanet had improperly used imprisonment and torture agai…
Prison and sacrament in the cult of saints
This article analyses the changing visual representation of St Barbara during the later middle ages. The article identifies a shift in St Barbara's iconography: whereas earlier medieval representations of the saint almost always show her with her prison tower, a number of fifteenth-century representations show the saint holding a chalice and host. The article traces how and why this shift occurred. In particular, the article explores the ways in …
Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150–1400
This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiographic
Didactic Uses of Imprisonment and Captivity
In the previous chapter I looked at how inquisitors imagined the protection of Christian souls through the use of the prison and its careful mapping as a space that was to be feared. In this manner, inquisitors were more generally concerned to mark out the boundaries of heretical and anti- heretical behaviours, in order to encourage confession and penitence. I also suggested that the same space of imprisonment could be appropriated by prisoners a…
Images of Blood in the Historia Albigensis of Pierre des Vaux‐de‐Cernay
This article will provide an analysis of the various ways in which blood appears in the Historia Albigensis of the Cistercian historian, Pierre des Vaux‐de‐Cernay. This history, written between 1213 and 1218, is well‐known for both its narrative of the first stage of the crusade against the heretics of Languedoc and for its eulogistic treatment of Simon de Montfort. Historians have also mined this chronicle for information about the various heret…
Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France
Journal Article Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France Get access Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France. Edited by Meredith Cohen and Justine Firnhaber-Baker. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing. 2010. xiii + 237 pp. £55.00 ISBN: 978 0 7546 6757 5. Megan Cassidy-Welch Megan Cassidy-Welch Monash University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Histor…
O Damietta’
The Egyptian port city of Damietta was a place which occupied a brief but important position in the crusading imaginary of the thirteenth century. This article examines how this city was used both to communicate particular memories of war experience and to lay down future patterns of remembrance. Processes of eyewitnessing, establishing the wider meaning of war, creating a warrior tradition and affirming the value of location or place were all wa…
DuncanRobertson
LarissaTracy
Memory and interpretation
This article describes the connection between studies of memory and the history of the crusades. The authors argue that integrating memory into crusades scholarship offers new ways of exploring the aftermath of war, the construction of cultural memory, the role of women and families in this process, and the crusading movement itself. The article draws on and extends recent trends in crusade scholarship that understand the crusades as a broad reli…
Before trauma
Can ‘trauma’ be an appropriate or insightful category of historical analysis for the study of the medieval past? In this article I consider how trauma theory can expose links between representation, memory and violence during the period of the crusades. I focus on one case study of ‘collective trauma’ – the capture of a relic of the True Cross by the army of Saladin at the battle of Hattin in 1187. According to Christian commentators, the battle …
Reconnaître et délimiter l’espace localement au Moyen Âge
This is a welcome collection clearly focused on the delineation of local space in urban and regional medieval contexts. Attentive especially to French, Portuguese and Catalonian examples, the chapters together offer a number of case-studies that demonstrate clearly the precise yet diverse means of shaping boundaries during (mostly) the high Middle Ages. The collection, edited by Nacima Baron, Stéphane Boissellier, François Clément and Flocel Saba…
Entangling Medieval Emotions and Gender in Mediterranean History
This essay introduces a group of essays that together explore the entanglement of gender and emotions in the medieval period, with a special interest in the Mediterranean. Focusing on the practices of crusading, pilgrimage, friendship and diplomacy from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, the essays reveal some of the many modes of human connection across the Mediterranean and beyond. These connections were informed by multiple factors – politi…
Practising Shame
Wild lands and the southern sun
Thirteenth-century crusading activity in north Africa reflected many connections between conflict, place and claims to territorial ownership. Crusading encounters with the Almohads and Marinids, Zirids and Hafsids, the Ayyubids and Mamluks, were also encounters with the landscapes and histories of a vast region already part of the biblical and Christian pasts to which crusaders themselves were sometimes imaginatively attached. This paper will con…
Introduction
This essay introduces a special issue examining various aspects of crusading landscapes as sites of conflict and encounter. It makes a case for the value of repositioning landscapes as primary scholarly focal points in the scholarship of the crusades and related historical conflicts and situates this argument in the context of recent approaches in the fields of landscape and environmental history and crusades studies
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