| To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages Subjects: Crusades -- Influence; Upper class families -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Nobility -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Families of military personnel -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Social history -- Medieval 500–1500; Europe -- Social conditions -- To; Paul reveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity and the culture of the medieval European nobility. Nicholas L. Paul is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University. He is coeditor of Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity . |