The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal and the Centre d’études médiévales dell’Université de Montreal, are pleased to invite you, in the frame work of the “Rencontres, conflits, échanges: l’espace méditerranéen au Moyen Âge” (Montréal, Université de Montréal, March 23rd 24th, 2018), at the conference “To be exiled de la la mar: the Crusade like punishment” by Andrea Tondi .
March 23, 2018, 15h15 – Free Admission
Université de Montréal
Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences – salle C 3061
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx
Conference in French
The Christian West’s crusades against the Muslim East for the Jerusalem’s conquest have been an event rich in perspective. The reasons why the papacy promoted the war in the Outremer have been examined for a long time by the critics: a good faith’s desire, the need of military action, lands and commercial exchanges. We must add also another reason for being sent de la la mar against the Saracens: the punishment for previous sins. The lecture is based on the penitence’s analysis, by comparing the sources to show its characteristics: for example a document, written in 1179, which contains the abjuration of Petrus Maurandus, who was accused of Catharism and condemned to the exile in Holy Land; some chronicles, composed by Dominicans, in which punishment is mentioned as possible for all the society; the Meaux-Paris’ treaty, which established the Raymond VII’s Rodi exile. Moreover, the leaving tendency over the sea was extended to the rebel nobles of the 1240-1245, Hugues de Lusignan and Raymond Roger II de Trencavel. In conclusion, Andrea Tondi will explain how the Mediterranean Sea was not only a meeting and exchanging place, but also a space intended as a prison for the opponents.
Andrea Tondi is a PhD candidate in Romance Philology at University of Siena and École Pratique des Hautes Études. His research project aims to a critical edition and a linguistic study of the mise en prose of the Chanson de la croisade albigeoise in Ancient Occitan. He studied the Arthurian literature in Old French and the Old Galician. He contributed to the Centro di Studi Galeghi at University of Padova. He also contributes to some international research project of digital humanities.
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