CFP: Crusading and Warfare and Crusading, Preaching, and Pilgrimage sessions for Leeds IMC
Mon 15 Sept
|Email proposals to peickman@wisc.edu
Submit abstracts for Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions-sponsored sessions at Kalamazoo
Time & Location
15 Sept 2025, 00:00 – 23:59
Email proposals to peickman@wisc.edu
About the Event
From Jonathan Riley-Smith’s contention that crusading was an “act of love” to Susanna Throop’s argument that crusaders saw their actions primarily as an “act of vengeance,” scholars of the Crusades have turned the heightened emotions of crusader texts into a productive avenue for research. This trend has been strengthened by historians such as Stephen Spencer and Wojtek Jezierski analyzing written descriptions of crusader emotions to not only understand the motivations of crusaders, but to engage the wider historiography of medieval emotions. This panel aims to continue this “emotional turn” by inviting scholars to discuss the function of emotionality in crusader sources.
Proposals for 20-minute papers are welcome on the topic of emotions in the Crusades. Themes
may include but are not limited to:
• Violence and Trauma
• Gender