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The Logistics of Crusading & Related Military Activities
30 September – 4 October 2002
St Paul's College
The Workshop met under the chairmanship of John Pryor. Invited participants
included Professor Reuven Amitai (Jerusalem), Professor Bernard Bachrach
(Minnesota), Professor John Dotson (Southern Illinois), Mr Charles
Glasheen (Northern Florida), Professor John France (Wales, Swansea),
Dr Ruthi Gertwagen (Haifa), Professor John Haldon (Birmingham), Professor
Benjamin Kedar (Jerusalem), Professor Yaacov Lev (Bar Ilan), Professor
Tom Madden (St Louis), Mr Todd Mason (Melbourne), Dr Alan Murray
(Leeds), and Professor Richard Unger (British Columbia). In addition,
numerous local people attended various sessions, imcluding Dr E.
Bonner, Professor M. Clunies Ross, Mr T. Dawson, Dr M. Nelson, Professor
R. Macleod, Dr B. L. Olson, and Dr J. O. Ward. The Public Lecture
on the evening of the opening day was attended by well over 50 people.
The concept of the Workshop proved an outstanding success. All who
attended subsequently emailed saying how much they enjoyed it, how
much they learned from it, and how much superior to the normal format
of academic conferences it was. In fact it proved remarkably dynamic.
All participants came remarkably well prepared and also ready to
engage with one another. In discussion there were the disagreements
one always expects (and indeed hopes for), but the degree of consensus
on many major issues, raised across numerous presentations, was unexpected.
Even when there were disagreements on detail, there was almost invariably
agreement on parameters. There is no doubt what emerged from the
Workshop was important and dynamic, and will generate great interest
around the world.
When published, the Proceedings will make a highly prestigious volume
challenging all historians of Crusading, Byzantine, and medieval
Muslim, warfare and putting Sydney ‘on the map’ of this
area of scholarship.
At the "wrap-up" session, the participants volunteered
to prepare final versions of their papers.
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