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When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice was invoked widely among the noble families of western Christendom. Popes preaching future crusades would count on these very same families for financing, leadership, and for the willing warriors who would lay down their lives on the battlefield. Despite the great risks and financial hardships associated with crusading, descendants of those who suffered and died on crusade would continue to take the cross, in some cases over several generations. Indeed, as Nicholas L. Paul reveals in To Follow in Their Footsteps, crusading was very much a family affair. Scholars of the crusades have long pointed to the importance of dynastic tradition and ties of kinship in the crusading movement but have failed to address more fundamental questions about the operation of these social processes. What is a "family tradition"? How are such traditions constructed and maintained, and by whom? How did crusading families confront the loss of their kin in distant lands? Making creative use of Latin dynastic narratives as well as vernacular literature, personal possessions and art objects, and architecture from across western Europe, Paul shows how traditions of crusading were established and reinforced in the collective memories of noble families throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Even rulers who never fulfilled crusading vows found their political lives dominated and, in some ways, directed by the memory of their crusading ancestors. Filled with unique insights and careful analysis, To Follow in Their Footsteps reveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity and the culture of the medieval European nobility.
Social history --- Families of military personnel --- Nobility --- Upper class families --- Crusades --- Military families --- Families --- Soldiers --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- History --- Influence. --- Europe --- Social conditions
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From 1866 through 1886, the U.S. Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire whose mission was to serve as a group of colonizers engaged in ideological as well as military, conquest.Cultural Construction of Empire explores the cultural and social representations of Native Americans, Hispanics, and frontiersmen constructed by the officers, enlisted men, and their dependents
Military dependents --- Imperialism --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Dependents of military personnel --- Military families --- Dependents --- Soldiers --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- History --- Social aspects --- United States. --- U.S. Army --- US Army --- New Mexico --- Arizona --- Â-li-sông-ná --- Aariisuunaa --- ʻAlikona --- Ariz. --- Arizona Eyâleti --- Arizona osariik --- Arizona-shū --- Arizona (Ter.) --- Arizona Territory --- Arizono --- Ārīzūnā --- Aryzona --- AZ --- Civitas Arizonae --- Estado de Arizona --- Estato d'Arizona --- Hoozdo Hahoodzo --- Negara Bagian Arizona --- Politeia tēs Arizona --- Shtat Aryzona --- State of Arizona --- Statul Arizona --- Talaith Arizona --- Territory of Arizona --- Πολιτεία της Αριζόνα --- Αριζονα --- Арызона --- Аризона --- Штат Арызона --- Штат Аризона --- أريزونا --- アリゾナ --- アリゾナ州 --- Nuevo México --- Nuevo Méjico --- History, Military --- Nuebo México --- Departamento del Nuevo Mejico
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