Thursday, Jan. 26
Opening Lecture
4 pm | Rehm Library
Dr. William Purkis, Department of History, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Bringing the Holy Land Home: Crusaders, Relics, and the Transformation of Latin Christendom’s Sacred Material World
View the video of the lecture
5:30pm, Cantor Gallery. Opening Reception.
Monday, January 30
Gallery Talk
12.15 | Cantor Art Gallery
Amanda Luyster, Guest Curator
The Chertsey Tiles: Context and Reconstruction
Monday, February 13
Lecture
4 pm | Media Lab Prior PAC
Dr. Chad Leahy, University of Denver
Bringing the Holy Land Home to Spain: Jerusalem and the National Imagination, 1095-2022
Tuesday, February 21 & Monday, February 27
Student Presentations
12.15 pm | Cantor Art Gallery
Saturday, March 25, 2023
8:30am-7pm. “Bringing the Holy Land Home” Conference, held in association with the NEMC (New England Medieval Consortium).
Recordings from the Symposium:
Moderator: Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College
Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross “Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece”
Nicholas Paul, Fordham University “Paving Over Paradise: The Aristocratic Landscape and the Crusading Experience, 1187-1291”
View :: Welcome and Introduction (1 of 5)
Chertsey Abbey and England
Moderator: Sonja Drimmer, UMass Amherst
Lloyd de Beer, British Museum “The Middle Ages and the British Museum: Past, Present and Future”
Euan Roger, National Archives, Kew “‘So Much National Magnificence and National History’: The Medieval Abbey at Chertsey, Then and Now”
View :: Chertsey Abbey and England (2 of 5)
Sites
Moderator: Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins University
Cynthia Hahn, Hunter College & Graduate Center of the City University of New York “The Place of Relics in the Crusades”
Eva Hoffman, Tufts University “The Visual Arts and the Shaping of the Frankish Experience of the Holy Land”
Paroma Chatterjee, University of Michigan “The Galley as Display Space in the Fourth Crusade”
View :: Sites (3 of 5)
Objects
Moderator: Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College
Richard Leson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “How to Move a Mountain: Visual Representations of the Pas Saladin”
Elizabeth Williams, Dumbarton Oaks “Fragments and Wholes: Medieval Textiles across the Indian Ocean”
Naomi Speakman, British Museum “Material Connections: The St. Eustace Head Relic Wrappings”
Sarah Guerin, University of Pennsylvania “Ivories Come to England”
View :: Objects (4 of 5)
Crusades, Then and Now
Moderator: Sahar Bazzaz, College of the Holy Cross
Suleiman Mourad, Smith College “A Clash of Civilizations? A Revisionist Reading of the History of Muslim-Frankish Encounters in the Crusader Period”
Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech “A Clash of (Academic) Civilizations: The Politics of Studying the Crusades after 9/11”
Paul Cobb, University of Pennsylvania Closing Remarks
View :: Crusades, Then and Now (5 of 5)
Tuesday, April 4
Gallery Talk
4 pm | Cantor Art Gallery
Meredith Fluke, Director Cantor Art Gallery
Bringing the Chertsey Tiles to Holy Cross: What We’ve Learned
A series of related musical performances by Holy Cross musical ensembles
Thursday, February 16
12.30 pm| Prior PAC Beehive
Holy Cross Chamber Music Ensemble
When Cultures Clash: Destruction and Synthesis
Wednesday, February 22
8 pm | Prior PAC Beehive
Holy Cross Orchestra
Orchestra Pop-Up Concert Exploring Cross Cultural Connections
Thursday, March 23
5:30 pm | Prior PAC Beehive
Holy Cross Chamber Singers
Title TBD
Wednesday, March 29
1 pm | Prior PAC Beehive
Gregorian Chant Ensemble
Chants of a Medieval Abbey