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Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade = Historia Iherosolimitana

"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2016
Routledge, New York, 2016
Sources
ix, 243 pages ; 25 cm.
9780754658627, 0754658627
1013462664
The textual history of the Historia Iherosolimitana
Robert and the Gesta Francorum
Robert's relationship with other sources and value as a historical source
Robert as author : the theologian, the historiographer, and the storyteller
Principles of translation
Sermo apologeticus
Prologue
Book I : the Council of Clermont and the Crusade of Peter the Hermit : November 1095-October 1096
Book II : the journey to Constantinople and negotiations there : October 1096-April 1097
Book III : Nicaea, Dorylaeum, and the arrival at Antioch : May 1097-October 1097
Book IV : the siege of Antioch : October 1097-February 1098
Book V : events leading to the fall of Antioch : February 1098-June 1098
Book VI : the Christians besieged in Antioch : June 1098
Book VII : victory at Antioch : June 1098-October 1098
Book VIII : from Antioch to Jerusalem : November 1098-June 1099
Book IX : the fall of Jerusalem and the battle of Ascalon : June 1099-August 1099
The supposed letter from Alexius Comnenus to Robert, Count of Flanders
The letter from the Patriarch of Jerusalem and other bishops to the churches of the West
Translated from the Latin