Simon John
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 657457 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Simon John |
| PRENOMES | Simon |
| SOBRENOME | John |
| ASSINATURA | JOHN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0728-0175 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Productive European cooperation between Britain and Germany
This article investigates the town twinning partnership between Swansea (South Wales) and Mannheim (Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany) from its inception in the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century. Its findings contribute to scholarship on post-1945 European town twinning, a subject that has not received the attention it deserves, especially from academics working in Britain. The article's arguments also complicate wider debates surrounding post-wa…
A Crusader Duel at the Crystal Palace
This article examines the display of two sculptures of medieval figures at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Those sculptures – Carlo Marochetti’s Richard Coeur de Lion and Eugène Simonis’ Godefroid de Bouillon – both honoured figures remembered as crusaders, and are better known in their permanent bronze versions that stand today in London and Brussels respectively. However, it is often overlooked that both works appeared at the exhibition, with Mar…
The Leopard, the Lion and the Cock
The Leopard, the Lion and the Cock: Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium, by Matthew G. Stanard The Leopard, the Lion and the Cock: Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium, by Matthew G. Stanard (Leuven: Leuven U.P., 2019; pp. 338. €65). Simon John Simon John Swansea University [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0728-0175 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical R…
The Principality of Antioch and its Frontiers in the Twelfth Century, by Andrew D. Buck
The repercussions of the First Crusade (1096–9) were both manifold and profound. Its most immediate consequence was the establishment by its participants of four new polities in the Near East: the county of Edessa and the principality of Antioch (both founded in 1098), the kingdom of Jerusalem (founded 1099) and the country of Tripoli (gradually established in the first decade of the twelfth century). Most historians who have dealt with these pol…
Literature of the Crusades
Henry the Liberal
Over the course of a distinguished career, Theodore Evergates has published a series of influential works on the medieval county of Champagne—that is, the region to the immediate east of Paris and the Île de France, and which was centred upon Troyes. These include monographs (such as A Feudal Society: The Bailliage of Troyes under the Counts of Champagne, 1152–1284 [1971] and The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1000–1300 [2007; rev ante, …
Godfrey of Bouillon
This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060-1100), a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99), and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem (1099-1100), the polity established by the crusaders after they captured the Holy City. While previous studies of Godfrey’s life have tended to focus on his career from the point at which he joined the crusade, this book adopts a more holistic approach, situa…
Royal inauguration and liturgical culture in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099–1187
While modern scholars have often assumed that the models of liturgical kingship which prevailed in Latin Christendom during the Early Middle Ages became less prominent in the Central Middle Ages, more recent work has suggested that royal dynasties including those of France and England maintained practices of liturgical kingship between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. This article contributes to this recent wave of historiography by examini…
The Papacy and the Establishment of the Kingdoms of Jerusalem, Sicily and Portugal
This article examines the political thought of the twelfth-century papacy, considering how popes of this era responded to the establishment of the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Sicily and Portugal. It compares the intellectual strategies used by popes to justify why these three polities were kingdoms rather than any other type of political unit. It is suggested that, to make their cases, popes advanced a range of arguments, many of which echoed the poli…
Traditional Healing Rituals of Tamil Nadu
The ‘Feast of the Liberation of Jerusalem’
Every year on 15 July the Latin inhabitants of twelfth-century Jerusalem celebrated a feast in remembrance of the capture of the Holy City by the forces of the First Crusade on that day in 1099. This article explores how the inhabitants of Jerusalem interpreted that day – the culminating events of the crusade – in the context of celebrating this 15 July feast. It examines the events which took place in Jerusalem as the city fell on 15 July 1099 a…
Reframing the Feudal Revolution
Journal Article Reframing the Feudal Revolution: Political and Social Transformation between Marne and Moselle, c.800–c.1100, by Charles West Get access Reframing the Feudal Revolution: Political and Social Transformation between Marne and Moselle, c.800–c.1100, by Charles West (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2014; pp. xiv + 307. £65). Simon John Simon John Balliol College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Historical Truth and the Miraculous Past
This article uses a number of twelfth-century Latin chronicles of the First Crusade (1096–99) as a point of entry into a wider discussion of medieval attitudes toward historical truth. It analyses how chroniclers used and interpreted spoken evidence in the composition of their accounts of the crusade. It is asserted that, if modern scholars are properly to understand those chroniclers’ methods, it must be recognised that twelfth-century conceptio…
The Practices of Crusading
This volume comprises fourteen essays by a distinguished and influential scholar of the crusades. The first of these essays appeared in print in 1982, and the most recent is an essay which is published here for the first time. As is typical of the Variorum format, the articles mostly retain their pagination and typesetting, so as to facilitate their continued use under their original references. A striking feature of the volume is the chronologic…
To Follow in Their Footsteps
A Different Kind of Test Match’
This paper uses cricket as an analytical tool for investigating developments in English society at the time of the First World War. It firstly explores contemporary attitudes to how cricket responded to the outbreak of war, making comparison with the experiences of other sports. It is shown that the fact cricketers enlisted in their thousands, allied to conspicuous attempts by the cricket authorities to support the war effort, largely deflected t…
Historical Truth and the Miraculous Past
This article uses a number of twelfth-century Latin chronicles of the First Crusade (1096–99) as a point of entry into a wider discussion of medieval attitudes toward historical truth. It analyses how chroniclers used and interpreted spoken evidence in the composition of their accounts of the crusade. It is asserted that, if modern scholars are properly to understand those chroniclers’ methods, it must be recognised that twelfth-century conceptio…
Traditional Healing Rituals of Tamil Nadu
The ‘Feast of the Liberation of Jerusalem’
Every year on 15 July the Latin inhabitants of twelfth-century Jerusalem celebrated a feast in remembrance of the capture of the Holy City by the forces of the First Crusade on that day in 1099. This article explores how the inhabitants of Jerusalem interpreted that day – the culminating events of the crusade – in the context of celebrating this 15 July feast. It examines the events which took place in Jerusalem as the city fell on 15 July 1099 a…
A Different Kind of Test Match’
This paper uses cricket as an analytical tool for investigating developments in English society at the time of the First World War. It firstly explores contemporary attitudes to how cricket responded to the outbreak of war, making comparison with the experiences of other sports. It is shown that the fact cricketers enlisted in their thousands, allied to conspicuous attempts by the cricket authorities to support the war effort, largely deflected t…
A Different Kind of Test Match’
This paper uses cricket as an analytical tool for investigating developments in English society at the time of the First World War. It firstly explores contemporary attitudes to how cricket responded to the outbreak of war, making comparison with the experiences of other sports. It is shown that the fact cricketers enlisted in their thousands, allied to conspicuous attempts by the cricket authorities to support the war effort, largely deflected t…
The Practices of Crusading
This volume comprises fourteen essays by a distinguished and influential scholar of the crusades. The first of these essays appeared in print in 1982, and the most recent is an essay which is published here for the first time. As is typical of the Variorum format, the articles mostly retain their pagination and typesetting, so as to facilitate their continued use under their original references. A striking feature of the volume is the chronologic…
To Follow in Their Footsteps
The ‘Feast of the Liberation of Jerusalem’
Every year on 15 July the Latin inhabitants of twelfth-century Jerusalem celebrated a feast in remembrance of the capture of the Holy City by the forces of the First Crusade on that day in 1099. This article explores how the inhabitants of Jerusalem interpreted that day – the culminating events of the crusade – in the context of celebrating this 15 July feast. It examines the events which took place in Jerusalem as the city fell on 15 July 1099 a…
Reframing the Feudal Revolution
Journal Article Reframing the Feudal Revolution: Political and Social Transformation between Marne and Moselle, c.800–c.1100, by Charles West Get access Reframing the Feudal Revolution: Political and Social Transformation between Marne and Moselle, c.800–c.1100, by Charles West (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2014; pp. xiv + 307. £65). Simon John Simon John Balliol College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Historical Truth and the Miraculous Past
This article uses a number of twelfth-century Latin chronicles of the First Crusade (1096–99) as a point of entry into a wider discussion of medieval attitudes toward historical truth. It analyses how chroniclers used and interpreted spoken evidence in the composition of their accounts of the crusade. It is asserted that, if modern scholars are properly to understand those chroniclers’ methods, it must be recognised that twelfth-century conceptio…
Godfrey of Bouillon
This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060-1100), a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99), and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem (1099-1100), the polity established by the crusaders after they captured the Holy City. While previous studies of Godfrey’s life have tended to focus on his career from the point at which he joined the crusade, this book adopts a more holistic approach, situa…
Royal inauguration and liturgical culture in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099–1187
While modern scholars have often assumed that the models of liturgical kingship which prevailed in Latin Christendom during the Early Middle Ages became less prominent in the Central Middle Ages, more recent work has suggested that royal dynasties including those of France and England maintained practices of liturgical kingship between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. This article contributes to this recent wave of historiography by examini…
The Papacy and the Establishment of the Kingdoms of Jerusalem, Sicily and Portugal
This article examines the political thought of the twelfth-century papacy, considering how popes of this era responded to the establishment of the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Sicily and Portugal. It compares the intellectual strategies used by popes to justify why these three polities were kingdoms rather than any other type of political unit. It is suggested that, to make their cases, popes advanced a range of arguments, many of which echoed the poli…
Traditional Healing Rituals of Tamil Nadu
The Principality of Antioch and its Frontiers in the Twelfth Century, by Andrew D. Buck
The repercussions of the First Crusade (1096–9) were both manifold and profound. Its most immediate consequence was the establishment by its participants of four new polities in the Near East: the county of Edessa and the principality of Antioch (both founded in 1098), the kingdom of Jerusalem (founded 1099) and the country of Tripoli (gradually established in the first decade of the twelfth century). Most historians who have dealt with these pol…
Literature of the Crusades
Henry the Liberal
Over the course of a distinguished career, Theodore Evergates has published a series of influential works on the medieval county of Champagne—that is, the region to the immediate east of Paris and the Île de France, and which was centred upon Troyes. These include monographs (such as A Feudal Society: The Bailliage of Troyes under the Counts of Champagne, 1152–1284 [1971] and The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1000–1300 [2007; rev ante, …
A Crusader Duel at the Crystal Palace
This article examines the display of two sculptures of medieval figures at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Those sculptures – Carlo Marochetti’s Richard Coeur de Lion and Eugène Simonis’ Godefroid de Bouillon – both honoured figures remembered as crusaders, and are better known in their permanent bronze versions that stand today in London and Brussels respectively. However, it is often overlooked that both works appeared at the exhibition, with Mar…
The Leopard, the Lion and the Cock
The Leopard, the Lion and the Cock: Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium, by Matthew G. Stanard The Leopard, the Lion and the Cock: Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium, by Matthew G. Stanard (Leuven: Leuven U.P., 2019; pp. 338. €65). Simon John Simon John Swansea University [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0728-0175 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical R…
Productive European cooperation between Britain and Germany
This article investigates the town twinning partnership between Swansea (South Wales) and Mannheim (Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany) from its inception in the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century. Its findings contribute to scholarship on post-1945 European town twinning, a subject that has not received the attention it deserves, especially from academics working in Britain. The article's arguments also complicate wider debates surrounding post-wa…
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