Andrew Jotischky
Biographic Data
| ID | 5373586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Jotischky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Jotischky |
| SIGNATURE | JOTISCHKY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, …
James Barnaby. Religious Conflict at Canterbury Cathedral in the Late Twelfth Century
Monks and the Muslim Enemy
Although most accounts of Christian encounters with Muslims in the period between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries pay particular attention to conflict and violence, a body of hagiographical texts emanating from monastic circles points to a different kind of approach. In this article I foreground three examples of Italo-Greek saints’ lives from the tenth and early eleventh centuries in which the saints in question treat Muslims whom they enc…
The Mount Sinai Monastery
Mount Sinai had already been a site of the veneration of Moses for two centuries when Emperor Justinian founded a monastery on the site of the Burning Bush in the sixth century. Subsequently the site attracted worship from Muslims as well as Christians after the Arab conquest of Sinai, but although a mosque was built there the monastery remained protected under successive Muslim regimes. From the late twelfth century onward the monastery was also…
Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States
The Image of the Greek
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin. Invisible Weapons
One of the most memorable scenes from the narrative chronicles of the First Crusade describes how the crusaders, having arrived at Jerusalem exhausted in early July 1099, with numbers and supplies depleted after three years of war, starvation, and disease, and apparently unable to make any impression on the city’s defenses, undertook a barefoot procession around the walls from Mount Sion at the southwest to the Church of St. Stephen at the northe…
Greek Orthodox monasteries in the Holy Land and their liturgies in the period of the crusades
The First Crusade and subsequent establishment of a Latin state and Latin Church hierarchy in Jerusalem was intended to liberate the Christian population of the Holy Land, most of them Greek Orthodox, from Seljuq rule, which was thought in the West to threaten Christian worship. Since the late tenth century, however, Greek monasteries in the Holy Land and Syria had been experiencing a revival which can be seen in the founding of new monasteries, …
The Franks in Outremer
Thirty years after Alan Murray’s first publication, the appearance of this set of some of his collected essays offers an opportunity to acknowledge the full range of his work on the political society and cultural geography of the Latin settlement in the Holy Land and Syria in the twelfth century. There is insufficient space to mention all of them by name here, but this review will attempt to give something of the flavour of Murray’s work. The vol…
Politics and the Crown in the Kingdom of Jerusalem 1099–1187
The success of the First Crusade in 1099 resulted in the settlement of small groups of Franks in the newly conquered territories in the Holy Land. The survival of these settlers and their ability to develop a viable kingdom based on Jerusalem and the coastal cities depended on various factors: the relative weakness and disunity of the neighbouring Seljuq and Fatimid states; the rapid organization of political and territorial administration by Kin…
The Crusader States, by Malcolm Barber
One of the monastic chroniclers of the First Crusade, Robert of Rheims, was so struck by the significance of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 that he declared it to be the most important event in human history since the Incarnation. At the time he was writing (before 1108), arguably no less impressive was the ability of those who had survived the crusade and remained behind in the east to create a viable and robust state based in Jerusalem. Not a…
Carmelites and Crusading in the Later Middle Ages
In contrast with their larger competitors, the Franciscans and Dominicans, the Carmelites seemed to eschew the Holy Land after its loss to the Mamluks in 1291. At first sight, the apparent lack of interest on the part of Carmelites in crusading and the Holy Land is surprising. Founded on Mount Carmel as an eremitical and contemplative community in the first decade of the thirteenth century, by the 1240s the Carmelites had begun to spread westward…
Monastic Reform and the Geography of Christendom
Monastic reform is generally understood as a textually driven process governed by a renewed interest in early monastic ideals and practices in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and focusing on the discourses of reformers about the Egyptian ‘desert fathers’ as the originators of monasticism. Historians have suggested that tropes about the desert, solitude, etc., drawn from early texts found their way into mainstream accounts of monastic change i…
The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291, by Nicholas Morton
Journal Article The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190–1291, by Nicholas Morton Get access The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190–1291, by Nicholas Morton (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2009; pp. xiv + 228. £55). Andrew Jotischky Andrew Jotischky Lancaster University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 523, December 2011, Pa…
Mittelalterliche Orden und Kloster im Vergleich
This volume containing ten papers in German, French, English and Italian represents the fruits of a conference held in May 2006 to celebrate the founding of the Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders at the Catholic University of Eichstätt. Following nine detailed papers divided into the general themes of Spirituality, Reform, Structures and Networks, a conclusion by Giles Constable draws the threads together. The thematic organis…
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East
Journal Article The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance Get access The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance, by Christopher MacEvitt (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2008; pp. 272. £32.50). Andrew Jotischky Andrew Jotischky Lancaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 512, February 2010, Pages …
Gateway to the Heavenly City
Journal Article Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099–1187) Get access Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099–1187). By SYLVIA SCHEIN (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005; pp. 239. £45). Andrew Jotischky Andrew Jotischky Lancaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 494, December 2006,…
Penance and Reconciliation in the Crusader States
Medieval popes can scarcely have expected such spectacular results from a bull as Gregory EX achieved in 1237. His bull Cum hora undecima of 1235, a fundamental statement of the Church’s missionary function, gave specific licence to the Dominican William of Montferrat to preach, dispense the sacraments, absolve and excommunicate in the lands of schismatics and heretics of the East. Two years later, Philip, the Dominican provincial of the Holy Lan…
Graeci und Suriani im Palästina der Kreuzfahrerzeit
The Carmelites and Antiquity
The Carmelite Order began when a group of hermits settled in a regulated community on Mt Carmel in the kingdom of Jerusalem in the first decade of the 13th century. As the hermits began to found new houses across Christendom, they adopted mendicant practices and developed legendary traditions designed to extend their putative history back before 1200. The Carmelite historical legendary sought to associate generic eremitical monasticism and its Ol…
History and Memory as Factors in Greek Orthodox Pilgrimage to the Holy Land under Crusader Rule
Western pilgrimage to the Holy Land can be explained through patterns of evolving spirituality. The development in the eleventh century of a penitential theology in which pilgrimage played a crucial role, coupled with the practical opportunities for travel occasioned by the success of the First Crusade, brought the Holy Land closer than ever. The survival of a strong textual tradition manifested in pilgrimage itineraries, many of which are autobi…
Gerard of Nazareth, Mary Magdalene and Latin Relations with the Greek Orthodox in the Crusader East in the Twelfth Century
Although relations between the Roman and Greek Orthodox Churches in the twelfth century were constrained by growing bitterness over doctrinal differences, an examination of relations between local representatives of the Churches in a specific geographical context – the Crusader States – reveals that theology and doctrine were of less significance than differences in observable custom and practice. Using evidence from pilgrimage accounts and from …
The Carmelite Order and Greek Orthodox Monasticism
On his embassy from Constantinople to the papal curia in 1339, the Greek Orthodox envoy Barlaam confided to Benedict XII his pessimistic belief that genuine union between the Churches was rendered impossible less by theological difference than by the shared history of relations between eastern and western Christendom: It is not so much the difference in doctrine that alienates the hearts of the Greeks from you as the hatred against the Latins tha…
Gerard of Nazareth, John Bale and the Origins of the Carmelite Order
Describing the general condition of the Latin Church in Outremer in the 1220s, Jacques de Vitry enumerated, as examples of those who had chosen the religious life, the hermits of Mt Carmel: Others, following the example and imitation of the holy solitary Elijah the Prophet, live on Mt Carmel, especially on the part which overlooks the city of Porphyria, which today is called Cayphas [Haifa], near the spring which is called the spring of Elijah, a…
Manuel Comnenus and the Reunion of the Churches
The twelfth-century mosaics on the nave walls of the Church of the Nativity illustrating the ecumenical and selected provincial councils of the Church are here examined in the context of the negotiations for the reunion of the Latin, Byzantine and Armenian churches in the 1160s–1170s. The existence of this Byzantine cycle according to a strictly Byzantine iconography in a Latin cathedral may argue for a permanent Orthodox monastic community, and …
The Carmelites and Antiquity
The Carmelite Order began when a group of hermits settled in a regulated community on Mt Carmel in the kingdom of Jerusalem in the first decade of the 13th century. As the hermits began to found new houses across Christendom, they adopted mendicant practices and developed legendary traditions designed to extend their putative history back before 1200. The Carmelite historical legendary sought to associate generic eremitical monasticism and its Ol…
Greek Orthodox monasteries in the Holy Land and their liturgies in the period of the crusades
The First Crusade and subsequent establishment of a Latin state and Latin Church hierarchy in Jerusalem was intended to liberate the Christian population of the Holy Land, most of them Greek Orthodox, from Seljuq rule, which was thought in the West to threaten Christian worship. Since the late tenth century, however, Greek monasteries in the Holy Land and Syria had been experiencing a revival which can be seen in the founding of new monasteries, …
Monastic Reform and the Geography of Christendom
Monastic reform is generally understood as a textually driven process governed by a renewed interest in early monastic ideals and practices in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and focusing on the discourses of reformers about the Egyptian ‘desert fathers’ as the originators of monasticism. Historians have suggested that tropes about the desert, solitude, etc., drawn from early texts found their way into mainstream accounts of monastic change i…
Gateway to the Heavenly City
Journal Article Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099–1187) Get access Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099–1187). By SYLVIA SCHEIN (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005; pp. 239. £45). Andrew Jotischky Andrew Jotischky Lancaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 494, December 2006,…
Manuel Comnenus and the Reunion of the Churches
The twelfth-century mosaics on the nave walls of the Church of the Nativity illustrating the ecumenical and selected provincial councils of the Church are here examined in the context of the negotiations for the reunion of the Latin, Byzantine and Armenian churches in the 1160s–1170s. The existence of this Byzantine cycle according to a strictly Byzantine iconography in a Latin cathedral may argue for a permanent Orthodox monastic community, and …
Gerard of Nazareth, John Bale and the Origins of the Carmelite Order
Describing the general condition of the Latin Church in Outremer in the 1220s, Jacques de Vitry enumerated, as examples of those who had chosen the religious life, the hermits of Mt Carmel: Others, following the example and imitation of the holy solitary Elijah the Prophet, live on Mt Carmel, especially on the part which overlooks the city of Porphyria, which today is called Cayphas [Haifa], near the spring which is called the spring of Elijah, a…
The Carmelite Order and Greek Orthodox Monasticism
On his embassy from Constantinople to the papal curia in 1339, the Greek Orthodox envoy Barlaam confided to Benedict XII his pessimistic belief that genuine union between the Churches was rendered impossible less by theological difference than by the shared history of relations between eastern and western Christendom: It is not so much the difference in doctrine that alienates the hearts of the Greeks from you as the hatred against the Latins tha…
Gerard of Nazareth, Mary Magdalene and Latin Relations with the Greek Orthodox in the Crusader East in the Twelfth Century
Although relations between the Roman and Greek Orthodox Churches in the twelfth century were constrained by growing bitterness over doctrinal differences, an examination of relations between local representatives of the Churches in a specific geographical context – the Crusader States – reveals that theology and doctrine were of less significance than differences in observable custom and practice. Using evidence from pilgrimage accounts and from …
History and Memory as Factors in Greek Orthodox Pilgrimage to the Holy Land under Crusader Rule
Western pilgrimage to the Holy Land can be explained through patterns of evolving spirituality. The development in the eleventh century of a penitential theology in which pilgrimage played a crucial role, coupled with the practical opportunities for travel occasioned by the success of the First Crusade, brought the Holy Land closer than ever. The survival of a strong textual tradition manifested in pilgrimage itineraries, many of which are autobi…
The Carmelites and Antiquity
The Carmelite Order began when a group of hermits settled in a regulated community on Mt Carmel in the kingdom of Jerusalem in the first decade of the 13th century. As the hermits began to found new houses across Christendom, they adopted mendicant practices and developed legendary traditions designed to extend their putative history back before 1200. The Carmelite historical legendary sought to associate generic eremitical monasticism and its Ol…
Graeci und Suriani im Palästina der Kreuzfahrerzeit
Penance and Reconciliation in the Crusader States
Medieval popes can scarcely have expected such spectacular results from a bull as Gregory EX achieved in 1237. His bull Cum hora undecima of 1235, a fundamental statement of the Church’s missionary function, gave specific licence to the Dominican William of Montferrat to preach, dispense the sacraments, absolve and excommunicate in the lands of schismatics and heretics of the East. Two years later, Philip, the Dominican provincial of the Holy Lan…
Gateway to the Heavenly City
Journal Article Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099–1187) Get access Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099–1187). By SYLVIA SCHEIN (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005; pp. 239. £45). Andrew Jotischky Andrew Jotischky Lancaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 494, December 2006,…
Mittelalterliche Orden und Kloster im Vergleich
This volume containing ten papers in German, French, English and Italian represents the fruits of a conference held in May 2006 to celebrate the founding of the Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders at the Catholic University of Eichstätt. Following nine detailed papers divided into the general themes of Spirituality, Reform, Structures and Networks, a conclusion by Giles Constable draws the threads together. The thematic organis…
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East
Journal Article The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance Get access The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance, by Christopher MacEvitt (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2008; pp. 272. £32.50). Andrew Jotischky Andrew Jotischky Lancaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 512, February 2010, Pages …
The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291, by Nicholas Morton
Journal Article The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190–1291, by Nicholas Morton Get access The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190–1291, by Nicholas Morton (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2009; pp. xiv + 228. £55). Andrew Jotischky Andrew Jotischky Lancaster University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 523, December 2011, Pa…
Monastic Reform and the Geography of Christendom
Monastic reform is generally understood as a textually driven process governed by a renewed interest in early monastic ideals and practices in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and focusing on the discourses of reformers about the Egyptian ‘desert fathers’ as the originators of monasticism. Historians have suggested that tropes about the desert, solitude, etc., drawn from early texts found their way into mainstream accounts of monastic change i…
Carmelites and Crusading in the Later Middle Ages
In contrast with their larger competitors, the Franciscans and Dominicans, the Carmelites seemed to eschew the Holy Land after its loss to the Mamluks in 1291. At first sight, the apparent lack of interest on the part of Carmelites in crusading and the Holy Land is surprising. Founded on Mount Carmel as an eremitical and contemplative community in the first decade of the thirteenth century, by the 1240s the Carmelites had begun to spread westward…
The Crusader States, by Malcolm Barber
One of the monastic chroniclers of the First Crusade, Robert of Rheims, was so struck by the significance of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 that he declared it to be the most important event in human history since the Incarnation. At the time he was writing (before 1108), arguably no less impressive was the ability of those who had survived the crusade and remained behind in the east to create a viable and robust state based in Jerusalem. Not a…
Politics and the Crown in the Kingdom of Jerusalem 1099–1187
The success of the First Crusade in 1099 resulted in the settlement of small groups of Franks in the newly conquered territories in the Holy Land. The survival of these settlers and their ability to develop a viable kingdom based on Jerusalem and the coastal cities depended on various factors: the relative weakness and disunity of the neighbouring Seljuq and Fatimid states; the rapid organization of political and territorial administration by Kin…
Greek Orthodox monasteries in the Holy Land and their liturgies in the period of the crusades
The First Crusade and subsequent establishment of a Latin state and Latin Church hierarchy in Jerusalem was intended to liberate the Christian population of the Holy Land, most of them Greek Orthodox, from Seljuq rule, which was thought in the West to threaten Christian worship. Since the late tenth century, however, Greek monasteries in the Holy Land and Syria had been experiencing a revival which can be seen in the founding of new monasteries, …
The Franks in Outremer
Thirty years after Alan Murray’s first publication, the appearance of this set of some of his collected essays offers an opportunity to acknowledge the full range of his work on the political society and cultural geography of the Latin settlement in the Holy Land and Syria in the twelfth century. There is insufficient space to mention all of them by name here, but this review will attempt to give something of the flavour of Murray’s work. The vol…
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin. Invisible Weapons
One of the most memorable scenes from the narrative chronicles of the First Crusade describes how the crusaders, having arrived at Jerusalem exhausted in early July 1099, with numbers and supplies depleted after three years of war, starvation, and disease, and apparently unable to make any impression on the city’s defenses, undertook a barefoot procession around the walls from Mount Sion at the southwest to the Church of St. Stephen at the northe…
The Image of the Greek
Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States
The Mount Sinai Monastery
Mount Sinai had already been a site of the veneration of Moses for two centuries when Emperor Justinian founded a monastery on the site of the Burning Bush in the sixth century. Subsequently the site attracted worship from Muslims as well as Christians after the Arab conquest of Sinai, but although a mosque was built there the monastery remained protected under successive Muslim regimes. From the late twelfth century onward the monastery was also…
Monks and the Muslim Enemy
Although most accounts of Christian encounters with Muslims in the period between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries pay particular attention to conflict and violence, a body of hagiographical texts emanating from monastic circles points to a different kind of approach. In this article I foreground three examples of Italo-Greek saints’ lives from the tenth and early eleventh centuries in which the saints in question treat Muslims whom they enc…
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, …
James Barnaby. Religious Conflict at Canterbury Cathedral in the Late Twelfth Century
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