The First Crusade in late medieval exempla.(Critical essay)

The Historian | March 22, 2006| | Copyright

ON 15 JULY 1099, a Christian army entered Jerusalem, thereby ending the four-year odyssey of the First Crusade and beginning a two-hundred-year period of Latin rule in the Levant. Shortly thereafter, the success of the crusaders at reclaiming the Holy City entered into the historical consciousness of medieval Europe, and the deeds of the first crusaders became the model for future crusading activity. Information about the First Crusade circulated in eyewitness chronicles and in the works of later historians of the Latin East; information that was supplemented by the chansons de ...

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