Stephen J Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen J Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6581-7415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Composition Date of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi (IP2) Reconsidered
Since Hans Eberhard Mayer’s ground-breaking study of 1962, scholars have almost invariably dated one of the longest western narratives of the Third Crusade, the compilation known as the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi, or IP2, to 1216–22. Challenging this deep-rooted view, this article proposes an earlier composition date and, in turn, casts new light on the work’s purpose and the circumstances of its creation. An analysis of both…
“Intimate Scripts” in the Chanson de Jérusalem
Since the pioneering scholarship of Jonathan Riley-Smith and Marcus Bull in the last decade of the twentieth century, studies of crusader motivation have primarily focused on the early crusading movement, above all the First Crusade (1095–99), and have privileged a specific source type: charter evidence. Comparatively little attention has been afforded to the topic of crusader motivation in the thirteenth century, with a lack of scholarly consens…
Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Visual Research Methods is a guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use a visual dimension in their research. This book offers an integrated approach to doing visual research, showing the potential for building convincing case studies using a mix of visual forms including: archive images, media, maps, objects, buildings, and video interviews
The Third Crusade in historiographical perspective
The Third Crusade (1187–1192) is renowned as a conflict between King Richard I of England and the Muslim Sultan Saladin—a reductionist perspective that reflects an enduring fascination with these protagonists both inside and outside academia. In fact, the expedition was significantly more diverse, with the German emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and the king of France, Philip Augustus, leading major contingents to the East, while a number of smalle…
The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191
While, and perhaps because, a wealth of scholarship exists on the legendary figures of Saladin and Richard the Lionheart, we still lack a comprehensive study of the Third Crusade; as such, the expedition remains an area ripe for further research. John Hosler’s book, the first monograph devoted solely to the siege of Acre, is thus a welcome addition to the historiography. In this military critique of the siege, based on a comparative reading of th…
Feelings of betrayal and echoes of the First Crusade in Odo of Deuil's De profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem
This article seeks to shed light on the literary agenda of Odo of Deuil, author of the most detailed Latin account of the Levantine branch of the Second Crusade. It calls for scholars to reinstate Odo's vilification of the Byzantines as a primary, rather than secondary, objective and proposes a new explanation for his stringent anti-Greek tone. It first extends our knowledge of Odo's engagement with the historiographical tradition of the First Cr…
Literature of the Crusades
Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
This book is a systematic, and on the whole convincing, reassessment of the twelfth-century courtier Walter Map and his De nugis curialium. Joshua Byron Smith makes two direct interventions in the
Like a Raging Lion’
Historians have almost universally characterised King Richard I of England, otherwise known as ‘the Lionheart’, as an intemperate hothead, whose anger was both uncontrollable and socially dysfunctional. This article seeks to test the evidential foundations of this longstanding view, and to explain its genesis, by analysing descriptions of Richard I’s anger in the narratives of the Third Crusade—narratives which have been foundational in formulati…
Piety, Brotherhood and Power
This article explores the role and significance of emotions in the Historia Ierosolimitana attributed to Albert of Aachen, long recognised as one of the most detailed and colourful histories of the First Crusade and the early years of Latin settlement in the East. Rather than attempting to reconstruct the crusaders' lived passions, it analyses the comments the author made about emotions and the ways in which emotion terms functioned in his histor…
Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Visual Research Methods is a guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use a visual dimension in their research. This book offers an integrated approach to doing visual research, showing the potential for building convincing case studies using a mix of visual forms including: archive images, media, maps, objects, buildings, and video interviews. Examples of the visual construction of ‘pla…
Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Visual Research Methods is a guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use a visual dimension in their research. This book offers an integrated approach to doing visual research, showing the potential for building convincing case studies using a mix of visual forms including: archive images, media, maps, objects, buildings, and video interviews. Examples of the visual construction of ‘pla…
Like a Raging Lion’
Historians have almost universally characterised King Richard I of England, otherwise known as ‘the Lionheart’, as an intemperate hothead, whose anger was both uncontrollable and socially dysfunctional. This article seeks to test the evidential foundations of this longstanding view, and to explain its genesis, by analysing descriptions of Richard I’s anger in the narratives of the Third Crusade—narratives which have been foundational in formulati…
Feelings of betrayal and echoes of the First Crusade in Odo of Deuil's De profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem
This article seeks to shed light on the literary agenda of Odo of Deuil, author of the most detailed Latin account of the Levantine branch of the Second Crusade. It calls for scholars to reinstate Odo's vilification of the Byzantines as a primary, rather than secondary, objective and proposes a new explanation for his stringent anti-Greek tone. It first extends our knowledge of Odo's engagement with the historiographical tradition of the First Cr…
Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Visual Research Methods is a guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use a visual dimension in their research. This book offers an integrated approach to doing visual research, showing the potential for building convincing case studies using a mix of visual forms including: archive images, media, maps, objects, buildings, and video interviews. Examples of the visual construction of ‘pla…
Piety, Brotherhood and Power
This article explores the role and significance of emotions in the Historia Ierosolimitana attributed to Albert of Aachen, long recognised as one of the most detailed and colourful histories of the First Crusade and the early years of Latin settlement in the East. Rather than attempting to reconstruct the crusaders' lived passions, it analyses the comments the author made about emotions and the ways in which emotion terms functioned in his histor…
Like a Raging Lion’
Historians have almost universally characterised King Richard I of England, otherwise known as ‘the Lionheart’, as an intemperate hothead, whose anger was both uncontrollable and socially dysfunctional. This article seeks to test the evidential foundations of this longstanding view, and to explain its genesis, by analysing descriptions of Richard I’s anger in the narratives of the Third Crusade—narratives which have been foundational in formulati…
Literature of the Crusades
Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
This book is a systematic, and on the whole convincing, reassessment of the twelfth-century courtier Walter Map and his De nugis curialium. Joshua Byron Smith makes two direct interventions in the
The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191
While, and perhaps because, a wealth of scholarship exists on the legendary figures of Saladin and Richard the Lionheart, we still lack a comprehensive study of the Third Crusade; as such, the expedition remains an area ripe for further research. John Hosler’s book, the first monograph devoted solely to the siege of Acre, is thus a welcome addition to the historiography. In this military critique of the siege, based on a comparative reading of th…
Feelings of betrayal and echoes of the First Crusade in Odo of Deuil's De profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem
This article seeks to shed light on the literary agenda of Odo of Deuil, author of the most detailed Latin account of the Levantine branch of the Second Crusade. It calls for scholars to reinstate Odo's vilification of the Byzantines as a primary, rather than secondary, objective and proposes a new explanation for his stringent anti-Greek tone. It first extends our knowledge of Odo's engagement with the historiographical tradition of the First Cr…
The Third Crusade in historiographical perspective
The Third Crusade (1187–1192) is renowned as a conflict between King Richard I of England and the Muslim Sultan Saladin—a reductionist perspective that reflects an enduring fascination with these protagonists both inside and outside academia. In fact, the expedition was significantly more diverse, with the German emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and the king of France, Philip Augustus, leading major contingents to the East, while a number of smalle…
Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Visual Research Methods is a guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use a visual dimension in their research. This book offers an integrated approach to doing visual research, showing the potential for building convincing case studies using a mix of visual forms including: archive images, media, maps, objects, buildings, and video interviews
“Intimate Scripts” in the Chanson de Jérusalem
Since the pioneering scholarship of Jonathan Riley-Smith and Marcus Bull in the last decade of the twentieth century, studies of crusader motivation have primarily focused on the early crusading movement, above all the First Crusade (1095–99), and have privileged a specific source type: charter evidence. Comparatively little attention has been afforded to the topic of crusader motivation in the thirteenth century, with a lack of scholarly consens…
The Composition Date of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi (IP2) Reconsidered
Since Hans Eberhard Mayer’s ground-breaking study of 1962, scholars have almost invariably dated one of the longest western narratives of the Third Crusade, the compilation known as the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi, or IP2, to 1216–22. Challenging this deep-rooted view, this article proposes an earlier composition date and, in turn, casts new light on the work’s purpose and the circumstances of its creation. An analysis of both…
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