The Crusades, the Latin East and Medieval History-Writing: An Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on Contributors ix
6. List of Abbreviations xiii
7. The Crusades, the Latin East and Medieval History-Writing: An Introduction 1
8. 1 History-Writing and Remembrance in Crusade Letters 34
9. 2 A ‘swiðe mycel styrung’: The First Crusade in Early Vernacular Annals from Anglo-Norman England 48
10. 3 To Bargain with God: The Crusade Vow in the Narratives of the First Crusade 68
11. 4 ‘The Lord has brought eastern riches before you’: Battlefield Spoils and Looted Treasure in Narratives of the First Crusade 86
12. 5 Foundation and Settlement in Fulcher of Chartres’ Historia Hierosolymitana: A Narratological Reading 102
13. 6 After Ascalon: ‘Bartolf of Nangis’, Fulcher of Chartres and the Early Years of the Kingdom of Jerusalem 121
14. 7 Repurposing a Crusade Chronicle: Peter of Cornwall’s Liber Revelationum and the Reception of Fulcher of Chartres’ Historia Hierosolymitana in Medieval England 137
15. 8 Between Chronicon and Chanson: William of Tyre, the First Crusade and the Art of Storytelling 155
16. 9 History and Politics in the Latin East: William of Tyre and the Composition of the Historia Hierosolymitana 174
17. 10 ‘When I became a man’: Kingship and Masculinity in William of Tyre’s Chronicon 191
18. 11 Laments for the Lost City: The Loss of Jerusalem in Western Historical Writing 211
19. 12 The Silences of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum 1 228
20. 13 The Natural and Biblical Landscapes of the Holy Land in Jacques de Vitry’s Historia Orientalis 242
21. 14 The Masculine Experience and the Experience of Masculinity on the Seventh Crusade in John of Joinville’s Vie de Saint Louis 259
22. 15 Writing and Copying History at Acre, c. 1230–91 277
23. Index 289