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Narrating Trauma? Captured Cross Relics in Chronicles and Chansons de Geste
Exemplaria Pub Date : 2021-06-22 , DOI: 10.1080/10412573.2021.1893088
Siobhain Bly Calkin 1
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ABSTRACT

This essay examines how medieval Christian writers narrate a Cross relic’s capture in battle by Muslims. It seeks to delineate the distinctive ways in which four texts from various genres craft a sense that this event should be perceived by Christians as a substantial collective loss that reshapes communities and individuals. It then concludes by assessing how these varied representations intersect with modern trauma theory in order to answer two questions: (1) Do Western medieval texts represent experiences of relic capture, which might be termed a form of devotional dispossession, in ways that communicate a sense of what is today labelled trauma?; and (2) If so, what might such representations mean for both medieval and trauma studies? Ultimately, the essay argues that these texts intersect with contemporary models of collective trauma and its narration and, in so doing, can contribute both to trauma studies’ rethinking of what trauma narratives look like and to medievalists’ understandings of the affective import of relic capture and the role of crusading texts in the construction of such affect.



中文翻译:

讲述创伤?在 Chronicles 和 Chansons de Geste 中捕获的交叉遗物

摘要

这篇文章考察了中世纪基督教作家如何叙述一个十字架遗物在战斗中被穆斯林俘虏。它试图描绘出四种不同体裁的文本以不同的方式营造出一种感觉,即基督徒应该将这一事件视为重塑社区和个人的重大集体损失。然后通过评估这些不同的表现如何与现代创伤理论相交来回答两个问题:(1)西方中世纪文本是否以传达某种意义的方式表现了遗物捕获的经验,这可能被称为一种虔诚的剥夺形式?什么是今天标记的创伤?(2) 如果是这样,这些表述对中世纪和创伤研究意味着什么?最终,

更新日期:2021-06-23
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