Robert The Monk's History Of The First Crusade,9780754604716

Robert The Monk's History Of The First Crusade

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ISBN13: 9780754604716
ISBN10: 0754604713
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-01-31
Publisher(s): Ashgate Pub Ltd
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Summary

Robert the Monk's chronicle of the First Crusade was one of the most popular such accounts in the Middle Ages. As such it gives an invaluable window onto contemporary perceptions of the crusade, as well as providing new and unique information - and all this in a racy style which on occasion would not disgrace a modern journalist. This is the first translation of the Latin text into English.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction
Chapter 1: The textual history of the Historia Iherosolimitana
1(11)
Chapter 2: Robert and the Gesta Francorum
12(16)
Chapter 3: Robert's relationship with other sources and value as a historical source
28(20)
Chapter 4: Robert as author: the theologian, the historiographer and the storyteller
48(21)
Chapter 5: Principles of translation
69(6)
Translation of Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana
Sermo Apologeticus
75(2)
Prologue
77(2)
Book I: The Council of Clermont and the Crusade of Peter the Hermit: November 1095-October 1096
79(10)
Book II: The journey to Constantinople and negotiations there: October 1096-April 1097
89(14)
Book III: Nicaea, Dorylaeum and the arrival at Antioch: May 1097-October 1097
103(18)
Book IV: The siege of Antioch: October 1097-February 1098
121(15)
Book V: Events leading to the fall of Antioch: February 1098-June 1098
136(11)
Book VI: The Christians besieged in Antioch: June 1098
147(14)
Book VII: Victory at Antioch: June 1098-October 1098
161(19)
Book VIII: From Antioch to Jerusalem: November 1098-June 1099
180(16)
Book IX: The fall of Jerusalem and the battle of Ascalon: June 1099-August 1099
196(19)
Appendix: Two letters calling Christians on Crusade 215(9)
The supposed letter from Alexius Comnenus to Robert, Count of Flanders
215(7)
The letter from the Patriarch of Jerusalem and other bishops to the Churches of the West
222(2)
Bibliography 224(9)
Index 233

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