{"id":169,"date":"2015-03-18T10:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T10:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=169"},"modified":"2015-05-23T06:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T06:21:57","slug":"the-representation-and-function-of-fear-in-the-narratives-of-the-first-crusade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/events\/the-representation-and-function-of-fear-in-the-narratives-of-the-first-crusade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Representation and Function of Fear in the Narratives of the First Crusade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over thirty years ago Jan Verbruggen rejected depictions of the undaunted knight<br \/>\nlusting for battle in vernacular poetry by highlighting examples where warriors were<br \/>\nrecognised as fearing death in historical narratives, including those pertaining to the<br \/>\nFirst Crusade. While the nature of these texts may not allow us to empirically<br \/>\nreconstruct what it actually felt like to be a crusader, it is still possible to explore the<br \/>\nemotional personification of the idyllic Christianprotagonist. Focusing on the fear of<br \/>\ndeath, this paper, by Stephen Spencer of QMUL, investigates whether fear was represented as an appropriate or inappropriate emotion for crusaders to display \u2013 whether the novelty of the First\u00a0Crusade and the unfamiliarity of the Muslim adversary created a context in which fear featured as an acceptable sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/2012-Sem-1-Lunchtime-seminars.pdf\">Lunchtime seminars 2012<\/a>\u00a0[PDF]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over thirty years ago Jan Verbruggen rejected depictions of the undaunted knight lusting for battle in vernacular poetry by highlighting examples where warriors were recognised as fearing death in historical narratives, including those pertaining to the First Crusade. While the nature of these texts may not allow us to empirically reconstruct what it actually felt [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/events\/the-representation-and-function-of-fear-in-the-narratives-of-the-first-crusade\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-lunchtime-seminars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}