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Memory: The Echo of the Centuries—Fourteenth to Eighteenth

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The Children’s Crusade

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Astonishingly, the pueri were remembered—and not just for a short stretch of time, but over la longue durée from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. The usual route for preserving the memory of medieval revivals was through commemorative rituals—saints’ days, shrine dedications, processions, and gatherings of a religious and social nature. Typically, these were presided over by confraternities whose foundations stemmed from a particular revival. Sharing its original religious impulses, these institutions were effectively dedicated to its memory. But the Children’s Crusade left no confraternal institutions behind it. For it, there would be no institutional vehicles of collective remembrance. So memories of the Children’s Crusade had to travel by other means.

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Dickson, G. (2008). Memory: The Echo of the Centuries—Fourteenth to Eighteenth. In: The Children’s Crusade. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592988_8

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