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For today’s #ManuscriptMonday we revisit the moment that crystallised crusading memory: Pope Urban II preaching the Crusade at Clermont, as depicted in the 15th-century illumination from Sébastien Mamerot’s Les passages d’Outremer.
(BnF, Français 5594, f. 19)
For today’s #ManuscriptMonday we sail to Egypt with a vivid scene of the disembarkation of Louis IX at Damietta, as imagined in a 16th-century illumination.
(BnF, Français 24948, f. 56v)
#medieval #middleages #manuscript #illumination #medievalart #crusades #louisIX #egypt
📘 #newrelease – Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (ed.),
Les discours sur la croisade. Mémoire, fiction, recours à l’antique, rhétorique et idéologie (XIIe–XVIe siècle) – @brepols.net 2026 (Recherches sur les Réceptions de l’Antiquité, vol. 5)
For today’s #manuscriptmonday, we will take a look at the “Livre des Assises de la baisse Court” of the Kingdom of Cyprus.
(München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.gall. 51)
For today’s #manuscriptmonday we will take another look at “Li rommans de Godefroy de Buillon et de Salehadin.” The illustration depicts the Siege of Antioch by Kerbogha in 1098.
(BnF, Français 22495, 50v.)
📘 #newrelease – Ordines Militares. Colloquia Torunensia Historica
Yearbook for the Study of the Military Orders
Vol. 30 (2025)
Open access issue:
apcz.umk.pl/OM/issue/vie...
Studies and Articles from the 22nd Ordines Militares Conference
Featured today is the author presenting his Gestorum Rhodie obsidionis commentarii to the Grand Master Pierre d’Aubusson.
[BnF, Latin 6067, fol. 3v]
📜 For #ManuscriptMonday, we turn to a luxury codex commissioned by Guillaume Caoursin, vice-chancellor of the Order of the Knights of St John in the last quarter of the XV century.
02.02.2026 13:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#sscle #middleages #medieval #crusade #crusades #latineast #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #art #illumination #fourthcrusade #Constantinople
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📜 For #MonumentMonday, we’re taking another look at the 15th-century chronicle Passages d'Outremer by Sébastien Mamerot. Featured today is an illustration of the fleet of the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) before the walls of Constantinople ⚓️🏰
(BnF: Français 5594, fol. 217r)
📘 #newrelease – Aleksander Pluskowski, Guillermo García-Contreras & Michelle Alexander (eds.)
Landscapes of (Re)Conquest. Frontier Dynamics in Medieval Iberia and Occitania
(Oxbow Books, 2025) — Open Access
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.36...
doi.org/10.2307/jj.3...
📘 #newrelease – Aleksander Pluskowski
The Black Cross. A History of the Baltic Crusades
(Yale University Press, 2026)
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Registration for the SSCLE Conference in Porto is now open 📝🌍
You can register at: www.crusadespayment.online
For the first #MonumentMonday of the new year, we present the Templar complex of San Bevignate in Umbria. Inside the church are a number of beautiful frescoes related to the knightly order.
(Pics credit: Wikimedia Commons)
In the spirit of this illumination, where banquet, celebration and the staging of the past converge, the SSCLE committee extends its warmest seasonal wishes and looks forward to reconnecting in the new year, with many forthcoming initiatives and projects.
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📜 For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, the Banquet of Charles V the Wise (Paris, BnF, Français 2813, f. 473v), a late fourteenth-century Parisian miniature, depicts the king presiding over a sumptuous feast while his guests are entertained by a theatrical re-enactment of the Crusades.
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🏛️⚔️🛡️🛶 Some of you might remember today’s object for #materialculturemonday from the announcement of the 11th SSCLE Conference in Porto next year. It is a coffered ceiling panel dating from the first half of the 14th century.
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(Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 9084, f. 307v — parchment, 418 ff., 370 × 270 mm; produced in Acre)
#sscle #middleages #medieval #crusades #latineast #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #illumination #jerusalem #bohemondIII #raymondIII #guillaumedetyr
📜 For today’s #ManuscriptMonday, here is a remarkable illumination showing Bohemond III of Antioch and Raymond III of Tripoli riding into Jerusalem, from a copy of the Chronique de Guillaume de Tyr et de ses continuateurs.
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👉 Available here in Open Access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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📘 #newrelease — Magnus Ressel & Emir O. Filipović (eds.)
Companion to the Later Crusades (1400–1700)
(De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2026) — Open Access
#crusades #thirdcrusade #medievalhistory #medievalstudies #academicpublishing #newbook #boydellpress #history
26.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Contributors include Ane L. Bysted, Daniel Franke, Helen J. Nicholson, James Naus, Jessalynn Bird, John D. Hosler, John France, Jonathan P. Phillips, Jonathan Rubin, Katrine Funding Højgaard, Stephen Bennett, Stephen J. Spencer, and Thomas W. Smith.
26.11.2025 13:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Contributors also engage with communication theory, the history of emotions, textual criticism, historiography, archaeology, and topography, offering a timely reassessment of this pivotal historical event.
26.11.2025 13:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Chapters explore causes, organization, participants, military progress, and the short- and long-term outcomes of the Third Crusade.
26.11.2025 13:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This collection offers fresh perspectives on one of the largest and most complex crusades ever launched. Covering all aspects of the expeditions — from preparation and commencement to results and consequences — it examines both western and eastern societies in a cross-cultural framework.
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