DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to Jerusalem

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Autor(a) principal: Horswell, Mike
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2019.n9.22363
Resumo: The nine-hundredth anniversary of the First Crusade (1095-99) saw hundreds of evangelical Western Christians trace the route of the medieval expedition apologising to local communities for the violence of the crusades. The Reconciliation Walk embodied an active and direct engagement with the crusading past and an attempt to defuse its perceived toxic legacies. The criticisms of the walk by crusade historian Jonathan Riley-Smith went beyond factual disagreement and illustrate tensions at the interface of popular and academic perceptions of the past.This article revisits Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s analysis of the rhetorical structure of an historical apology and his application to the Reconciliation Walk to reveal the ways in which both the organisers of the walk and their critics constructed continuities and discontinuities between communities over time. Rather than agreeing with Trouillot that the walk constituted an “abortive ritual”, I suggest that the performance and reception of the apology demonstrate the affective power of perceptions of the past, and reinforce the need for historians to take these – often factually inaccurate – collective memories seriously in considering the presentist significance of the past.
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spelling DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to JerusalemDEUS VULT? Apologistas, historiadores e “rituais abortivos” na caminhada da reconciliação de 1999 até JerusalémCrusadesapologiesreconciliationhistoryCruzadasdesculpasreconciliaçãohistóriaThe nine-hundredth anniversary of the First Crusade (1095-99) saw hundreds of evangelical Western Christians trace the route of the medieval expedition apologising to local communities for the violence of the crusades. The Reconciliation Walk embodied an active and direct engagement with the crusading past and an attempt to defuse its perceived toxic legacies. The criticisms of the walk by crusade historian Jonathan Riley-Smith went beyond factual disagreement and illustrate tensions at the interface of popular and academic perceptions of the past.This article revisits Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s analysis of the rhetorical structure of an historical apology and his application to the Reconciliation Walk to reveal the ways in which both the organisers of the walk and their critics constructed continuities and discontinuities between communities over time. Rather than agreeing with Trouillot that the walk constituted an “abortive ritual”, I suggest that the performance and reception of the apology demonstrate the affective power of perceptions of the past, and reinforce the need for historians to take these – often factually inaccurate – collective memories seriously in considering the presentist significance of the past.No nonagésimo centésimo aniversário da Primeira Cruzada (1095-99), centenas de cristãos evangélicos ocidentais percorreram o caminho da expedição medieval, desculpando-se às comunidades locais pela violência das cruzadas. A Caminhada da Reconciliação deu corpo a um comprometimento ativo e direto com o passado das cruzadas e a uma tentativa de neutralizar as suas percecionadas heranças tóxicas. As críticas à caminhada por Jonathan Riley-Smith, historiador das cruzadas, foram além da discordância fatual e ilustram as tensões no cruzamento das perceções populares e académicas do passado. Este artigo revisita a análise de Michel-Rolph Trouillot da estrutura retórica de um pedido de desculpas histórico na sua aplicação à Caminhada da Reconciliação para revelar as formas pelas quais os organizadores do passeio e os seus críticos construíram continuidades e descontinuidades entre as comunidades ao longo do tempo. Em vez de concordar com Trouillot, que a caminhada constituía um “ritual abortivo”, sugiro que o desempenho e a receção do pedido de desculpas demonstram o poder afetivo das perceções do passado e reforçam a necessidade de os historiadores levarem a sério essas memórias coletivas – muitas vezes imprecisas – ao considerarem o significado presentista do passado.Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa2021-01-18info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2019.n9.22363https://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2019.n9.22363Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past; No. 9 (2019)Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past; N.º 9 (2019)2183-590Xreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/22363https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/22363/16468Copyright (c) 2021 Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Pastinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessHorswell, Mike2023-04-15T05:22:49Zoai:ojs.revistas.rcaap.pt:article/22363Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:49:18.498742Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to Jerusalem
DEUS VULT? Apologistas, historiadores e “rituais abortivos” na caminhada da reconciliação de 1999 até Jerusalém
title DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to Jerusalem
spellingShingle DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to Jerusalem
Horswell, Mike
Crusades
apologies
reconciliation
history
Cruzadas
desculpas
reconciliação
história
title_short DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to Jerusalem
title_full DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to Jerusalem
title_fullStr DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to Jerusalem
title_full_unstemmed DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to Jerusalem
title_sort DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to Jerusalem
author Horswell, Mike
author_facet Horswell, Mike
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Horswell, Mike
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Crusades
apologies
reconciliation
history
Cruzadas
desculpas
reconciliação
história
topic Crusades
apologies
reconciliation
history
Cruzadas
desculpas
reconciliação
história
description The nine-hundredth anniversary of the First Crusade (1095-99) saw hundreds of evangelical Western Christians trace the route of the medieval expedition apologising to local communities for the violence of the crusades. The Reconciliation Walk embodied an active and direct engagement with the crusading past and an attempt to defuse its perceived toxic legacies. The criticisms of the walk by crusade historian Jonathan Riley-Smith went beyond factual disagreement and illustrate tensions at the interface of popular and academic perceptions of the past.This article revisits Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s analysis of the rhetorical structure of an historical apology and his application to the Reconciliation Walk to reveal the ways in which both the organisers of the walk and their critics constructed continuities and discontinuities between communities over time. Rather than agreeing with Trouillot that the walk constituted an “abortive ritual”, I suggest that the performance and reception of the apology demonstrate the affective power of perceptions of the past, and reinforce the need for historians to take these – often factually inaccurate – collective memories seriously in considering the presentist significance of the past.
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