Eyewitness and Crusade Narrative
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The idea of what an "eyewitness" account is here scrutinised through examination of key Crusading texts.
The idea of what an "eyewitness" account is here scrutinised through examination of key Crusading texts.
Eyewitness" is a familiar label that historians apply to numerous pieces of evidence. It carries compelling connotations of trustworthiness and particular proxi
First comprehensive study of miracles in Crusade narrative, showing how and why they were deployed by their authors.
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 t
The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, beginning with