How Long to Read Rewriting the First Crusade

How Long Does it Take to Read Rewriting the First Crusade?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 13 minutes to read Rewriting the First Crusade by Thomas W. Smith

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An exploration of the letters from the First Crusade, yielding evidence for a number of reinterpretations of the movement. The letters stemming from the First Crusade are premier sources for understanding the launch, campaign, and aftermath of the expedition. Between 1095 and 1100, epistles sustained social relationships across the Mediterranean and within Europe, as a mixture of historical writing, literary invention, news, and theological interpretation. They served ecclesiastical administration, projected authority, and formed focal points for spiritual commemoration and para-liturgical campaigns. This volume, grounded on extensive research into the original manuscripts, and presenting numerous new manuscript witnesses, argues that some of the letters are post hoc "inventions", composed by generations of scribe-readers who visited crusading sites from the twelfth century on, adding new layers of meaning in the form of interpolations and post-scripts. Drawing upon this new understanding, and blurring the distinction of epistolary "reality", it rewrites central aspects of the history of the First Crusade, considering the documents in a new way: as markers of enthusiasm and support for the crusade movement among monastic clergy, who copied and consumed them as a form of scribal crusading. Whether authentic letters or literary "confections", they functioned as communal sites for the celebration, commemoration and memorialisation of the expedition.

How long is Rewriting the First Crusade?

Rewriting the First Crusade by Thomas W. Smith is 247 pages long, and a total of 63,479 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rewriting the First Crusade Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Rewriting the First Crusade aloud.

What Reading Level is Rewriting the First Crusade?

Rewriting the First Crusade is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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