Description:
Explores how the Fifth Crusade was remembered and commemorated during its triumphs and immediately after its disastrous conclusion. Provides a study of medieval war memory, showing that in the early decades of the thirteenth century, remembering war was an important means of creating and expressing collective and individual belonging.
Brief description: Megan Cassidy-Welch is Professor of History at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the editor of Remembering the Crusadesand Crusading and coeditor of Crusades and Memory.
Review Quotes:
"By brilliantly reading the major sources for the Fifth Crusade as 'acts of remembrance, ' sources intended to shape the individual and collective memory of the crusade, Megan Cassidy-Welch pushes us to reconsider both medieval and modern memories of this epic campaign."
--David M. Perry, author of Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade