25 Years After Hillenbrand: New Approaches to Sources, Translation and Perspectives

Workshop – Università di Groningen
10-12 Ottobre 2024

25 Years After Hillenbrand: New Approaches to Sources, Translation and Perspectives

Organised by Mohamad El-Merheb (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) and James Wilson (Universität Konstanz)

Antonio Cuciniello interviene sul tema:
Spreading light in the shadows of war. Meeting and dialogue between two men of faith: the saint and the sultan.

Carole Hillenbrand's seminal work, The Crusades. Islamic Perspectives, was published 25 years ago. In the time since its publication, Islamic experiences of the crusading phenomenon have been repositioned as a central element of crusader studies. Yet questions remain about how the field moves onwards from here.

We aim to gather leading experts and early career researchers in the field of crusader studies (broadly defined) including specialists on Islamic written and material sources, and other linguistic traditions (Latin, Old French, Iberian dialects and vernaculars, Syriac, Greek, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic, and Armenian) to discuss emerging research pathways. The workshop will highlight and further develop the latest advances in the study of materiality, objects and artefacts, art history, intellectual history, historiography, translation studies, the history of emotions, digital humanities, memory and remembrance, and medievalism.

A selection of the conference proceedings will be published as part of a special collection in a leading, specialised journal.