The Letters of Stephen of Blois Reconsidered

Parsons, Simon Thomas

doi:10.1080/28327861.2018.12220505

Crusades

2018

DOI: 10.1080/28327861.2018.12220505

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The Letters of Stephen of Blois Reconsidered

Simon Thomas Parsons

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First Crusade Letters and Medieval Monastic Scribal Cultures

Smith

2019

J. Eccles. Hist.

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The letters of the First Crusade have traditionally been read as authentic and trustworthy eyewitness accounts of the expedition and they contribute greatly to scholarly understanding of the campaign. But new research on them demonstrates that many of the documents are in fact twelfth-century confections produced in the monastic communities of the West as a means of supporting, participating in and engaging with the crusading movement. This article develops new approaches to the letters and new research questions which account for and accept the problematic authenticity of the corpus, pivoting away from traditional methodologies to explore the monastic scribal cultures that produced and consumed First Crusade letters.

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First Crusade Letters and Medieval Monastic Scribal Cultures

Smith

2019

J. Eccles. Hist.

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Communication Challenges in the Crusade Period: A Survey

Menache

2022

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Considering communication as an analytical category provides new insights into crusading history. This paper investigates two main aspects, namely, (1) Papal propaganda campaigns, and (2) the communication challenges inherent in the development of the crusades and the Latin East. Both fields combined offer additional perspectives of the crusades while hinting at a twofold failure: vis-à-vis the European audiences, who throughout the thirteenth century were no longer receptive to the traditional papal message. Second, the almost complete lack of communication initiatives that could have facilitated a more fluent interchange across the Mediterranean and perhaps also retard if not obstruct the collapse of the Latin settlements Outremer. From a communication perspective, therefore, the papal policy encapsulated not only a propaganda fiasco but possibly also a communication blackout.

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The Letters of Stephen of Blois Reconsidered

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First Crusade Letters and Medieval Monastic Scribal Cultures

First Crusade Letters and Medieval Monastic Scribal Cultures

Communication Challenges in the Crusade Period: A Survey

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