Chronicles of the First Crusade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chronicles of the First Crusade write by Christopher Tyerman. This book was released on 2011-11-03. Chronicles of the First Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of the First Crusade, as witnessed by contemporary writers 'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!' The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour and the beginning of what proved to be a futile and abortive attempt to implant a new European kingdom of heaven in an overwhelmingly Muslim world. This remarkable collection brings together a wide variety of contemporary accounts of the First Crusade, including Pope Urban II's initial call to arms of 1095, as well as the first-hand writings of priests, knights, a Jewish pilgrim, a destitute noblewoman, an Iraqi poet and the historian Anna Comnena. Together they provide a vivid and nuanced picture of the First Crusade and the people who were swept up in it. Edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Tyerman
The First Crusade
The First Crusade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Crusade write by Edward Peters. This book was released on 2011-06-03. The First Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The First Crusade received its name and shape late. To its contemporaries, the event was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only later were those participants dubbed Crusaders—"those signed with the Cross." In fact, many developments with regard to the First Crusade, like the bestowing of the cross and the elaboration of Crusaders' privileges, did not occur until the late twelfth century, almost one hundred years after the event itself. In a greatly expanded second edition, Edward Peters brings together the primary texts that document eleventh-century reform ecclesiology, the appearance of new social groups and their attitudes, the institutional and literary evidence dealing with Holy War and pilgrimage, and, most important, the firsthand experiences by men who participated in the events of 1095-1099. Peters supplements his previous work by including a considerable number of texts not available at the time of the original publication. The new material, which constitutes nearly one-third of the book, consists chiefly of materials from non-Christian sources, especially translations of documents written in Hebrew and Arabic. In addition, Peters has extensively revised and expanded the Introduction to address the most important issues of recent scholarship.
Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade write by Elizabeth Lapina. This book was released on 2015-08-13. Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries. Lapina analyzes the diversity of ways in which the chroniclers tried to justify the First Crusade as a “holy war,” where physical violence could be not just sinless, but salvific. The book focuses on accounts of miracles reported to have happened in the course of the crusade, especially the miracle of the intervention of saints in the Battle of Antioch. Lapina shows why and how chroniclers used these miracles to provide historical precedent and to reconcile the messiness of history with the conviction that history was ordered by divine will. In doing so, she provides an important glimpse into the intellectual efforts of the chronicles and their authors, illuminating their perspectives toward the concepts of history, salvation, and the East. Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade demonstrates how these narratives sought to position the crusade as an event in the time line of sacred history. Lapina offers original insights into the effects of the crusade on the Western imaginary as well as how medieval authors thought about and represented history.
The First Crusade
The First Crusade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Crusade write by August Charles Krey. This book was released on 1921. The First Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade
Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade write by Carol Sweetenham. This book was released on 2017-09-19. Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first English translation of Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana, a Latin prose chronicle describing the First Crusade. In addition to providing new and unique information on the Crusade (Robert claims to have been an eyewitness of the Council of Clermont in 1095), its particular interest lies in the great popularity it enjoyed in the Middle Ages. The text has close links with the vernacular literary tradition and is written in a racy style which would not disgrace a modern tabloid journalist. Its reflection of contemporary legends and anecdotes gives us insights into perceptions of the Crusade at that time and opens up interesting perspectives onto the relationship of history and fiction in the twelfth century. The introduction discusses what we know about Robert, his importance as a historical source and his place in the literary tradition of the First Crusade.
