CFP: Crusading Communities - Leeds International Medieval Congress 2027

Too often siloed as a distinctive medieval activity, recent research has started to place the crusades in a wider context. It is imperative that we do so in order to understand the genesis, cultural capital, and impact of those holy wars in the Middle Ages, for it is abundantly clear that the crusading movement affected swathes of people who did not themselves take the cross. These sessions contribute to this wider scholarly effort to contextualise the crusades by taking ‘community’ as their analytical thread.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of the broad theme ‘crusades and community’. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Communities supporting crusade preaching and recruitment

• Interactions between Latin and non-Latin communities

• The crusader states, e.g. law, administration, daily life