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2024

Journal Article

Review of Making the East Latin: the Latin literature of the Levant in the era of the crusades, by Julian Yolles (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Humanities). Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2022, xii, 296 pp., ISBN 9780884024880 (hardback)

Spacey, Beth C. (2024). Review of Making the East Latin: the Latin literature of the Levant in the era of the crusades, by Julian Yolles (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Humanities). Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2022, xii, 296 pp., ISBN 9780884024880 (hardback). Crusades, 22 (2), 290-291. doi: 10.1080/14765276.2023.2285152

Review of Making the East Latin: the Latin literature of the Levant in the era of the crusades, by Julian Yolles (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Humanities). Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2022, xii, 296 pp., ISBN 9780884024880 (hardback)

2024

Book Chapter

‘The root of bitterness’: Crusade and the Eradication of Heresy from the Occitanian Landscape in Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay’s Historia Albigensis

Spacey, Beth C. (2024). ‘The root of bitterness’: Crusade and the Eradication of Heresy from the Occitanian Landscape in Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay’s Historia Albigensis. The Crusades and Nature. (pp. 269-292) Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-58786-3_12

‘The root of bitterness’: Crusade and the Eradication of Heresy from the Occitanian Landscape in Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay’s Historia Albigensis

2024

Book Chapter

The natural and biblical landscapes of the Holy Land in Jacques de Vitry's Historia Orientalis

Spacey, Beth C. (2024). The natural and biblical landscapes of the Holy Land in Jacques de Vitry's Historia Orientalis. Crusade, settlement and historical writing in the Latin East and Latin West c.1100-c.1300. (pp. 242-258) edited by Andrew D. Buck, James H. Kane and Stephen J. Spencer. Woodbridge, United Kingdom: Boydell & Brewer. doi: 10.1515/9781805431510-018

The natural and biblical landscapes of the Holy Land in Jacques de Vitry's Historia Orientalis

2023

Book Chapter

Guibert of Nogent, deeds of God through the Franks

Spacey, Beth (2023). Guibert of Nogent, deeds of God through the Franks. Christian-Muslim relations, primary sources, volume 1: 500-1500. (pp. 311-313) edited by David Thomas. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.

Guibert of Nogent, deeds of God through the Franks

2023

Other Outputs

Buildings tumbling, survivors living in tents: medieval descriptions of an 1114 CE earthquake in present-day Turkey and Syria feel eerily familiar

Spacey, Beth (2023, 02 16). Buildings tumbling, survivors living in tents: medieval descriptions of an 1114 CE earthquake in present-day Turkey and Syria feel eerily familiar The Conversation

Buildings tumbling, survivors living in tents: medieval descriptions of an 1114 CE earthquake in present-day Turkey and Syria feel eerily familiar

2023

Journal Article

Review of: Helen J. Nicholson, Women and the Crusades (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). vii, 287 pp., ISBN: 9780798806721; ebook ISBN: 9780191980701

Spacey, Beth C. (2023). Review of: Helen J. Nicholson, Women and the Crusades (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). vii, 287 pp., ISBN: 9780798806721; ebook ISBN: 9780191980701. Ceræ: an Australasian journal of medieval and early modern studies, 10, 189-193.

Review of: Helen J. Nicholson, Women and the Crusades (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). vii, 287 pp., ISBN: 9780798806721; ebook ISBN: 9780191980701

2022

Journal Article

Katherine Allen Smith, The Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century. (Crusading in Context.) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2020. Pp. xi, 294. $99. ISBN: 978-1-7832-7523-6

Spacey, Beth C. (2022). Katherine Allen Smith, The Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century. (Crusading in Context.) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2020. Pp. xi, 294. $99. ISBN: 978-1-7832-7523-6. Speculum, 97 (3), 893-895. doi: 10.1086/720578

Katherine Allen Smith, The Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century. (Crusading in Context.) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2020. Pp. xi, 294. $99. ISBN: 978-1-7832-7523-6

2022

Book Chapter

Guibert of Nogent, Deeds of God through the Franks

Spacey, Beth (2022). Guibert of Nogent, Deeds of God through the Franks. The Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, 600–1500. (pp. 248-250) edited by David Thomas. England, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350214132.ch-60

Guibert of Nogent, Deeds of God through the Franks

2022

Book Chapter

Miracles and crusade narrative in the first Old French Crusade Cycle

Spacey, Beth C. (2022). Miracles and crusade narrative in the first Old French Crusade Cycle. Chronicle, crusade, and the Latin East: essays in honour of Susan B. Edgington. (pp. 149-164) edited by Andrew D. Buck and Thomas W. Smith. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. doi: 10.1484/m.outremer-eb.5.128886

Miracles and crusade narrative in the first Old French Crusade Cycle

2022

Book Chapter

Narrating ‘new wonders’: divine agency, crusade and Afonso I of Portugal's 1147 conquest of Santarém

Spacey, Beth C. (2022). Narrating ‘new wonders’: divine agency, crusade and Afonso I of Portugal's 1147 conquest of Santarém. Miracles, political authority and violence in medieval and early modern history. (pp. 78-91) edited by Matthew Rowley and Natasha Hodgson. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003168294-4

Narrating ‘new wonders’: divine agency, crusade and Afonso I of Portugal's 1147 conquest of Santarém

2021

Other Outputs

Medieval Christians saw the lunar eclipse as a sign from God — but they also understood the science

Spacey, Beth (2021, 05 25). Medieval Christians saw the lunar eclipse as a sign from God — but they also understood the science The Conversation

Medieval Christians saw the lunar eclipse as a sign from God — but they also understood the science

2021

Journal Article

Introduction: landscapes of conflict and encounter in the crusading world

Spacey, Beth C. and Cassidy-Welch, Megan (2021). Introduction: landscapes of conflict and encounter in the crusading world. Journal of Medieval History, 47 (3), 1-9. doi: 10.1080/03044181.2021.1928378

Introduction: landscapes of conflict and encounter in the crusading world

2021

Journal Article

‘A land of horror and vast wilderness’: landscapes of crusade and Jerusalem pilgrimage in Arnold of Lübeck's Chronica Slavorum

Spacey, Beth C. (2021). ‘A land of horror and vast wilderness’: landscapes of crusade and Jerusalem pilgrimage in Arnold of Lübeck's Chronica Slavorum. Journal of Medieval History, 47 (3), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/03044181.2021.1926667

‘A land of horror and vast wilderness’: landscapes of crusade and Jerusalem pilgrimage in Arnold of Lübeck's Chronica Slavorum

2021

Journal Article

Book review: Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean

Spacey, Beth C. (2021). Book review: Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean. Parergon, 38 (2), 187-188.

Book review: Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean

2021

Journal Article

The Conquest of the Holy Land by Salah al-Din: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Anonymous

Spacey, Beth C. (2021). The Conquest of the Holy Land by Salah al-Din: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Anonymous. Parergon, 38 (1), 194-196.

The Conquest of the Holy Land by Salah al-Din: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Anonymous

2021

Journal Article

Book review: Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c. 1000-c. 1500

Spacey, Beth C. (2021). Book review: Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c. 1000-c. 1500. Parergon, 38 (2), 262-263.

Book review: Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c. 1000-c. 1500

2020

Journal Article

Visionary masculinities: emotion and the experience of the miraculous in latin narratives of the first crusade

Spacey, Beth C. (2020). Visionary masculinities: emotion and the experience of the miraculous in latin narratives of the first crusade. Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 4 (2), 327-347. doi: 10.1163/2208522x-02010099

Visionary masculinities: emotion and the experience of the miraculous in latin narratives of the first crusade

2020

Book

The miraculous and the writing of crusade narrative

Spacey, Beth C. (2020). The miraculous and the writing of crusade narrative. Woodbridge, United Kingdom: Boydell & Brewer. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvrdf0w9

The miraculous and the writing of crusade narrative

2019

Journal Article

Refocusing the First Crusade: authorial self-fashioning and the miraculous in William of Tyre’s Historia Ierosolymitana

Spacey, Beth. C. (2019). Refocusing the First Crusade: authorial self-fashioning and the miraculous in William of Tyre’s Historia Ierosolymitana. The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture, 5 (2), 51-66. doi: 10.16922/jrhlc.5.2.5

Refocusing the First Crusade: authorial self-fashioning and the miraculous in William of Tyre’s Historia Ierosolymitana

2019

Book Chapter

Martyrdom as masculinity in the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi

Spacey, Beth C. (2019). Martyrdom as masculinity in the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi. Crusading and masculinities. (pp. 222-236) edited by Natasha R. Hodgson, Katherine J. Lewis and Matthew M. Mesley. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315166490-14

Martyrdom as masculinity in the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi