Elizabeth Lapina
Biographic Data
| ID | 6406380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Lapina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Lapina |
| SIGNATURE | LAPINA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bringing the Holy Land Home
Celestial Phenomena of 1097/98 in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
This article examines three celestial phenomena observed by the participants of the First Crusade during the “Antioch” phase of the enterprise: a comet (October 1097); an aurora (January 1, 1098) and a meteor (June 13, 1098). The article will attempt to reconstruct, as much as it is possible, what these phenomena were and what they were really like. It will argue that they were objectively extraordinary, unlike anything most crusaders had ever ex…
Medievalism, Misogyny, and Orientalism
This article is an historian's engagement with Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and its portrayal of Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem. It demonstrates that the film presents a myth of medieval women's lack of agency, especially in the spheres of warfare and politics, and that it also projects modern misogynist and Orientalist tropes onto the medieval past. In addition to critiquing the film's historical claims, it draws on medieval sources to re…
Crusader Chronicles
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The Crusades and Visual Culture
Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries. Lapina analyzes the diversity of ways in which the chroniclers tried to justify the First Crusade as a "holy war," where physical violence…
Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
The Maccabees and the Battle of Antioch
Anti-Jewish rhetoric in Guibert of Nogent's Dei gesta per Francos
When Guibert of Nogent, a Benedictine monk living in northern France, re-wrote the anonymous Gesta Francorum, an eyewitness chronicle of the First Crusade, he changed more than just the style and the title. One of Guibert's most significant additions to his model was vitriolic anti-Jewish rhetoric. The present article explains some of the reasons why Guibert felt the need to deride the Jews of the Old Testament, particularly the Maccabees, as par…
The Mural Paintings of Berzé-la-Ville in the Context of the First Crusade and the Reconquista
The programme of mural paintings in the Cluniac chapel of Berze-la-Ville in Burgundy has a highly peculiar iconography. The present article argues that Abbot Hugh of Cluny (1049-1109) designed the programme, and makes the case that many of the unusual iconographical choices were due to his desire to make a particular statement about the First Crusade and the Reconquista. The question of Cluniac attitudes towards Christian-Muslim warfare has been …
The Mural Paintings of Berzé-la-Ville in the Context of the First Crusade and the Reconquista
The programme of mural paintings in the Cluniac chapel of Berze-la-Ville in Burgundy has a highly peculiar iconography. The present article argues that Abbot Hugh of Cluny (1049-1109) designed the programme, and makes the case that many of the unusual iconographical choices were due to his desire to make a particular statement about the First Crusade and the Reconquista. The question of Cluniac attitudes towards Christian-Muslim warfare has been …
The Mural Paintings of Berzé-la-Ville in the Context of the First Crusade and the Reconquista
The programme of mural paintings in the Cluniac chapel of Berze-la-Ville in Burgundy has a highly peculiar iconography. The present article argues that Abbot Hugh of Cluny (1049-1109) designed the programme, and makes the case that many of the unusual iconographical choices were due to his desire to make a particular statement about the First Crusade and the Reconquista. The question of Cluniac attitudes towards Christian-Muslim warfare has been …
Anti-Jewish rhetoric in Guibert of Nogent's Dei gesta per Francos
When Guibert of Nogent, a Benedictine monk living in northern France, re-wrote the anonymous Gesta Francorum, an eyewitness chronicle of the First Crusade, he changed more than just the style and the title. One of Guibert's most significant additions to his model was vitriolic anti-Jewish rhetoric. The present article explains some of the reasons why Guibert felt the need to deride the Jews of the Old Testament, particularly the Maccabees, as par…
The Maccabees and the Battle of Antioch
Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries. Lapina analyzes the diversity of ways in which the chroniclers tried to justify the First Crusade as a "holy war," where physical violence…
Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
The Crusades and Visual Culture
Crusader Chronicles
A summary is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Medievalism, Misogyny, and Orientalism
This article is an historian's engagement with Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and its portrayal of Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem. It demonstrates that the film presents a myth of medieval women's lack of agency, especially in the spheres of warfare and politics, and that it also projects modern misogynist and Orientalist tropes onto the medieval past. In addition to critiquing the film's historical claims, it draws on medieval sources to re…
Celestial Phenomena of 1097/98 in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
This article examines three celestial phenomena observed by the participants of the First Crusade during the “Antioch” phase of the enterprise: a comet (October 1097); an aurora (January 1, 1098) and a meteor (June 13, 1098). The article will attempt to reconstruct, as much as it is possible, what these phenomena were and what they were really like. It will argue that they were objectively extraordinary, unlike anything most crusaders had ever ex…
Bringing the Holy Land Home
History (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (7 works) · Medieval History and Crusades (6 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (2 works)