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Oliba’s Memory Machine Oliba’s Memory Machine
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The Catalan Counts and the Crusade in Spain The Catalan Counts and the Crusade in Spain
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Return to Ripoll Return to Ripoll
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Competition Competition
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Crisis of Crown and Crusade Crisis of Crown and Crusade
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To Secure a Triumph To Secure a Triumph
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A Guide to Victory A Guide to Victory
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Triumph Deferred Triumph Deferred
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Abstract
This chapter examines the role that ancestry played in the attempts to persuade King Alfonso II of Aragón to take the cross in the second half of the twelfth century, as well as his failure to lead crusades despite repeated appeals to him during a period of great crisis on the crusading frontiers in Spain. When he made his testament, Alfonso named his executors, elected his place of burial, and established his temporal and spiritual legacies. Alfonso divided the lands he ruled among his heirs and made dozens of gifts to shrines, churches, and religious communities in his own dominions and beyond. Later in the document, as he announced the many pious benefactions that would be made to the churches, monasteries, and shrines of his kingdom, Alfonso turned to the abbey of Santa Maria de Ripoll. This chapter first provides a historical background on Ripoll before discussing how the abbey's narrative of Alfonso's dynastic crusading past could have informed his actions at the very end of his life.
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