Society for the Study of the Crusades
and the Latin East

at the 2011 International Congress on Medieval Studies

Kalamazoo, Michigan

May 12-15, 2011


SSCLE Dinner at Kalamazoo

Crusaders feasting...

All SSCLE members attending the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo are invited to a dinner on the campus of WMU (Bernhard President's Dining Room) on Friday, May 13, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.

Cocktails will be served from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Dinner will be served at 7:00 p.m.

The cost for the event is $45, which includes all food and beverages.
Stimulating conversation is free.

To reserve a place, send a check for $45 (payable to the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) to:

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
SSCLE Dinner Reservation
Saint Louis University
3800 Lindell Blvd.
St Louis, MO 63108

Credit card reservations can be made by calling 314-977-7180.

Please note that space is limited!

For more information call 314-977-7180 or email cmrs@slu.edu.


SSCLE Sessions at Kalamazoo

Friday, May 13, 2011, 10:00 a.m.
Session 225
Bernhard 210

The Crusades I: The Papacy and the Crusades

Organizer: Thomas F. Madden, St. Louis Univ.
Presider: Damian J. Smith, St. Louis Univ.

The Development of the Papal Crusade Blessing
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College

The Papacy, Crusading, and the Jews in the Central Middle Ages
Rebecca Rist, Univ. of Reading

The Papal Employment of Embargo: A Footnote to Crusade?
Stefan Stantchev, Arizona State Univ.

Saturday, May 14, 2011, 10:00 a.m.
Session 397
Bernhard 210

The Crusades II: Islamic Perspectives

Organizer: Thomas F. Madden, St. Louis Univ.
Presider: Jon Porter, Butler Univ.

New Thoughts on the Assassins of Syria
Carole Hillenbrand, Univ. of Edinburgh

“The Most Learned Prince”: Late Ayyubid Ideas on Pious Warfare
Uri Z. Shachar, Univ. of Chicago

The Tunisian Tribute in Law and Diplomacy
Michael Lower, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities

Sunday, May 15, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Session 542
Bernhard 208

The Crusades III: Memory and Traditions

Organizer: Thomas F. Madden, St. Louis Univ.
Presider: Paul F. Crawford, California Univ. of Pennsylvania

An Anti-national Richard Coeur de Lion: Associational Forms and the
Crusading Romance
Lee Manion, Stern College for Women/ Yeshiva Univ.

Competing Narratives of the Fourth Crusade in Late Medieval Venice
Thomas F. Madden

The Emperor’s Musician Learns Latin “Polyphony”
Spyridon Antonopoulos, City Univ. London


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