The Crusades History and Literature

11 Bedford Square, London22nd of March 2014, 10.00 - 18.00

A one-day workshop on the crusades and their texts, to include talks on lyric responses to the crusades in medieval France and Occitania, poetic sources in First Crusade texts, crusading warfare, chivalry and the enslavement of women and children,

Outremer and redemptive suffering, and non-knightly participants in the crusades.

Speakers include: Professor Linda Paterson, Professor Charmaine Lee, Dr AnnaRadaelli, Dr Carol Sweetenham, Dr Matthew Bennett, Professor John Gillingham,

Dr Jean Dunbabin, Dr Luca Barbieri, Professor Stefano Asperti, Dr Marianne Ailes, and Mr Simon Parsons.

All are welcome. Attendance, lunch and refreshments are free but placesare limited to 30 on a first come first served basis: to register for a place, see below.

to register, please contact Linda Paterson at linda.frrac@gmail.com