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by Jay Rubenstein


  10 GF, pp. 95; RtM 9, 19, p. 875, and 9, 23, p. 879; GN 7, 20, p. 299; BB 4, 20, p. 109. See also France (1994), pp. 362–366. Guibert specifies 7, that Robert had not captured the standard himself but had instead bought it from another soldier—captured the standard himself but had instead bought it from another soldier—still, a sign of the duke’s marvelous generosity.

  11 BN 39, p. 518. The German writer is Frutolf, p. 116. BB 4, 20–21, pp. 109–110; RtM 9, 21, p. 878. One of Baudry’s earliest copyists spotted the potential embarrassment from this passage (given that wars with Egypt continued unabated) and excised it from the text. It appears to survive in only two manuscripts (of the fourteen that I have examined). See Apoc. 8:7, where at the sound of the first trumpet, fire and hail mixed with blood rain down from heaven.

  12 FC 1, 31, 10, pp. 316–317.

  13 BN 71, p. 541; FC 2, 35, 2, p. 507. More generally, FC 2, 34–35, pp. 503–509. BN is either a lightly revised version of FC’s chronicle or (in my opinion the more likely case) a copy of the first draft of FC’s chronicle, finished in 1106, preserving elements of that draft that have since been lost.

  Conclusion

  1 This anecdote about Galdemar was published as a continuation to Raymond’s chronicle (henceforth, “Continuation”) in RHC Oc. 5, pp. 307–308.The author only specifies Greek and Armenian; I am presuming the Latin. At one point Galdemar started to leave Hugh, but the archbishop ordered him by the oath he had made to him in life to return. See also Riley-Smith (1997), p. 75.

  2 “Continuation,” p. 308.

  3 The treaty appears in Fernand Vercauteren, ed., Actes des comtes de Flandre, 1071–1128 (Brussels: Palais des Académies, 1938), pp. 90–91.

  4 CdA 233, pp. 284–285, for example; OV 5, 10, pp. 324–325; GN 5, 25, p. 228.

  5 The literature on this topic is vast, but to hit the highlights: R. N. Swanson, The Twelfth-Century Renaissance (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1999); R. W. Southern, Medieval Humanism and Other Studies (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1970); Colin Morris, The Discovery of the Individual, 1050–1200 (New York: Harper and Row, 1972). The most important recent foray into the topic is Rachel Fulton, From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), which considers the question of the development of empathy in the twelfth century.

  6 On Raimbold Croton, see Riley-Smith (1997), pp. 155–156.

  7 GN 5, 11, p. 214; BN 35, p. 515; I Sam. 15:3.

  8 BB 1, 4, p. 14. Robert uses the image frequently: RtM 2, 16, p. 747; 3, 14, p. 763; 6, 12, p. 812. See also RC 125, p. 693.

  9 In particular, GN 2, 1, p. 109. On this theme generally, see Anthony D. Smith, Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003), esp. pp. 44–65, 120–123, and 137–141; and Mary Garrison, “The Franks as the New Israel? Education for an Identity from Pippin to Charlemagne,” in Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Yitzhak Hen and Matthew Innes (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 114–161. Matthew Gabriele’s book is titled An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem Before the First Crusade. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011).

  10 Brett Edward Whalen, Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009). On the definition of Christianitas, Rousset, pp. 102–103, makes this point. Denis Hay, Europe: The Emergence of an Idea (New York: Harper and Row, 1957), pp. 22–23 and 27–28, notes the word’s ambiguities but draws too sharp a distinction between Christianitas as “the faithful” and Christianismus as the “faith,” which was not a universally understood distinction. See also BB prologue, p. 9; 1, 11, p. 20; 2, 3, pp. 35–36; 2, 7, p. 39; 2, 16, p. 49; 4, 21, p. 110; and RA, p. 110.

  11 RA, p. 151; RC 57, p. 648; Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, ed. and trans. Diana Greenway (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1996), 7, 14, pp. 436–437. See the recent study by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009). I most certainly attribute more influence to the First Crusade for the propagation of these ideas than does Akbari.

  12 GN 1, 2, p. 89, and, more generally, pp. 89–90; WM, 347, pp. 602–603, and 360, pp. 632–635. See also WM, 372, pp. 654–655, where he says it was a miracle that so many men, accustomed to cold weather, would willingly travel East. See the comments of Hay, Europe, pp. 3–5 and 32–33.

  13 Paris BnF MS Arsenal 1101, fol. 101v, printed in the “Continuation,” p. 309. See also Ripoll Account, p. 649. The biblical passage here conflates Apoc. 6:2 and 19:14.

  A Note on Sources

  1 Deeds of the Franks, or GF, has long enjoyed a reputation for being the most important of the crusade sources. I have presented a detailed interpretation of it in Rubenstein (2004). Historians, by contrast, have tended to discount the value of Raymond’s book, seeing it as a revised version of GF, when in fact all evidence points to the two books being composed at the same time (and it is indeed likely that the two writers would have known of each other’s work during the crusade itself, perhaps helping to explain the similarities). Historians have only recently begun to appreciate the value of Albert of Aachen’s chronicle (AA), thanks to the work of his most recent editor, Susan Edgington. I have disagreed with Edgington here by saying that Albert made use of a now-lost source (and am currently preparing an article to make this case more forcefully).

  Index

  Abraham

  Acre

  Adela of Blois (wife of Stephen of Blois)

  Adhémar (bishop of le Puy)

  and Antioch

  battle orations of

  cross of

  death of

  and decapitation

  and Dorylaeum

  and Holy Lance

  and Holy Lance, excavation of

  and Kerbogah, defeat of

  and Nicea

  and nun from Trier

  and Peter Bartholomew, visions of

  and Peter Desiderius, visions of

  and Stephen of Valence, visions of

  and Urban II,

  Adultery

  Aelia Capitolina

  Agarenes. See also Muslims; Saracens

  Agatha (saint)

  Ahmad ibn-Marwan

  Aimo (archbishop of Bourges)

  Al-Afdal

  Al-Aqsa Mosque

  Albara

  Albert of Aachen

  and Adhémar, death of

  and Antioch

  and Ascalon

  and Bohemond

  and cannibalism

  and Civitot

  and Godfrey of Bouillon

  and Jerusalem, massacre at

  and Nicea

  and nun from Trier

  and procession of penance and humility

  and Sidon

  Alexius II,

  and Antioch

  and Bohemond

  and Civitot

  and crusade, contributions to

  and decapitation

  and Dorylaeum

  and Godfrey of Bouillon–

  and Greek Fire

  hostages of

  and Hugh the Great

  and Nicea

  and nun from Trier

  oaths to–

  and Peter the Hermit

  and Raymond of Saint-Gilles

  and religious war

  and Robert of Flanders

  and Saracens

  and Seljuk Turks

  and Stephen of Blois

  and Tetigus

  and Turks

  and Urban II,

  Al-Hakim bi Amr Allah

  Alp Arslan (sultan)

  Ambrose (saint)

  Anatolia

  Andrew (monk)

  Andrew (saint)

  and Antioch

  and Holy Lance

  and John IV,

  and Ma‘arra

  relics of

  Angers
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br />   Animals, as sign of Apocalypse. See also Signs

  Anna Comnena

  and Bohemond

  and Civitot

  and Godfrey of Bouillon

  and Hugh the Great

  and Kelts

  and Nicea

  Anselm of Ribemont

  Antichrist, plate 7

  and decapitations, plate 4

  precursor to

  and Urban II,

  Antioch(map)

  and Alexius II,

  apocalyptic signs in

  and Bohemond

  cannibalism at

  decapitation at

  description of

  desertion at

  destruction of

  earthquake in

  and Egypt

  and ghost riders

  importance of

  and Kerbogah

  and Kerbogah, defeat of

  and Kerbogah, negotiations with

  and Kerbogah, withdrawal from

  legal judgment at

  Mahomerie tower at

  massacre at

  miracles at

  moral code at

  and Orontes River battle

  orphans at

  and Peter Bartholomew, visions of

  religious buildings at, defacing of

  road to

  rule of

  siege of

  as special Christian inheritance

  starvation at

  and Taurus Mountains

  tournaments at

  trial by combat at

  truce at

  truce at, failure of

  victory at

  visions at

  and Yaghi-Siyan, and relief army

  Apocalypse

  and animals

  and Clermont sermon

  defined

  false

  and history

  and miracles

  ongoing, First Crusade as

  and opposites

  scenes of

  and seventh battle

  and white horse, apocalyptic rider on

  See also Apocalypticism

  Apocalyptic signs. See Signs

  Apocalyptic visions. See Visions

  Apocalypticism. See also Apocalypse; Armageddon; Last Days; Last Emperor; Last Judgment; Millenarianism; Visions

  Armageddon. See also

  Apocalypticism

  Armor. See also Army

  Army (of First Crusade)

  dehydration of

  dispersal of

  and honor

  and major battle sites(map)

  of princes

  reform of, vision of

  routes taken by(map) (map)(map)

  supplies for

  and visions(see also Visions)

  See also Armor; under individual leaders; Warriors; Weaponry

  Arnold (knight; former lord of Échauffour)

  Arnulf (bishop of Martirano)

  Arnulf of Choques (patriarch)

  and Ascalon

  Arnulf of Choques (priest)

  Arqa

  Ascalon

  Augustine (saint)

  Augustus

  Bagrat

  Balduk

  Baldwin (archbishop of Caesarea)

  Baldwin of Boulogne

  as adopted son of Toros

  and Antioch

  as Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem

  and Constantinople

  fate of

  and Godfrey of Bouillon

  and Mamistra

  and Marash

  as prince of Edessa

  and Samosata

  and Syria

  and Tarsus

  wife of

  Baptism

  Bari

  Bartlett, Robert

  Baudry (monk)

  Baudry of Bourgueil

  and Clermont

  and Jerusalem

  and siege warfare, violence of

  Belgrade

  Beneciacum

  Benjamites

  Benzo (bishop of Alba)

  Bertha of Holland

  Bertrada of Montfort

  Bertrand of le Puy

  Bethlehem

  Birds eating flesh of men, plate 5

  Bohemond (of Antioch; of Taranto)

  and Alexius II,

  and Alexius II, negotiations with

  and Alexius II, oath to

  and Antioch

  and Antioch, rule of

  and Antioch, starvation at

  and Antioch, victory at

  army of

  and Baldwin of Boulogne

  and battle wounds

  and Byzantine-Turkish alliances

  and cannibalism

  and Cilicia

  and Constantinople

  and decapitation

  and Dorylaeum

  fate of

  and Holy Lance

  as hostage

  and Jerusalem

  and Kerbogah

  and Kerbogah, defeat of

  and Ma‘arra

  as military genius, at Antioch

  military plan of

  and Nicea

  and Orontes River battle

  and Peter Bartholomew, vision of

  and Pirrus

  and Tetigus

  The Book of Raymond of Aguilers

  Boutoumites (general)

  Brutality

  at Antioch

  of Godfrey of Bouillon

  of Raymond of Saint-Gilles

  of Saracens

  See also Cannibalism; Decapitation; Massacres; Violence

  Bucinat

  Bulgaria

  Byzantine Empire(map)

  Byzantine-Turkish alliances

  Canaanites

  Cannibalism

  at Antioch

  at Ma‘arra

  and Peter Bartholomew, visions of

  See also Brutality

  Cappadocia

  Castoria

  Charlemagne

  Chosen People

  obsession with

  Christ

  as apocalyptic rider on white horse

  and Last Days, signs of

  Christendom

  “Christian,”

  Christian identity

  Christians

  and conversion

  Latin Catholic vs. Greek Orthodox

  vs. Muslims

  Chrysobull

  Church of the Nativity

  Churches, as sanctuaries

  Cilicia

  Circumcision

  Civitot

  Clarembald of Vendeuil

  Clement III (aka Wibert of Ravenna; the Antipope; “the blockheaded pope”)

  Clermont, sermon at

  and Antichrist

  apocalypticism of

  and call for peace

  and crusade indulgence

  and pollution, fear of

  and Saracens, brutality of

  Climate

  Code of conduct, of crusade warriors

  Coloman (king of Hungary)

  and Emicho of Flonheim

  and Godfrey of Bouillon

  Combat fatigue

  Comets. See also Signs

  Conrad (son of Henry IV)

  Constantine Euphorbenus Catacalon

  Constantine the Great

  Constantinople

  and Baldwin of Boulogne

  and Bohemond

  and Godfrey of Bouillon

  and Peter the Hermit

  and Walter of Sansavoir

  Conversion, religious

  forced

  Council of Clermont

  Crown of Thorns

  Crucifixion of Christ

  nails of

  site of(see also Golgotha)

  Crusade indulgence

  Crusade leaders. See Leaders, of crusade

  Crusader state

  Daimbert (archbishop of Pisa)

  Dalmatia (aka Sclavonia)

  Daniel, Book of

  David (king)

  enthrone
d in earthly Jerusalem, plate 9

  Decapitation

  and Alexius II,

  and antichrist, plate 4

  at Antioch

  of Denis (saint)

  and Egypt

  in Nicomedia

  and Peter Bartholomew, visions of

  and Peter the Hermit, armies of

  See also Brutality

  Dehydration

  Demetrius (saint)

  Denis (saint)

  decapitation of

  Desertions

  at Antioch

  Deuteronomy

  Dome of the Rock

  Dorylaeum

  Drogo of Nesle

  Duqaq of Damascus

  Durand (bishop of Clermont)

  Durazzo

  Earthquakes. See also Signs

  East, vs. West

  Easter, March

  Échauffour

  Edessa

  Egypt

  Egyptians

  and Ascalon

  and Jerusalem

  Emicho of Flonheim

  army of

  and pogroms

  End of days. See Last Days

  End times. See Last Days

  Europe, siege warfare in

  Eustace (count of Boulogne)

  “Evil Crown,”

  Evrard (priest)

  Evrard the Hunter (knight)

  “The Faithful Men of St. Peter,”

  First Crusade

  and Christian identity

  and climate

  and Frankish identity

  as holy war

  and the individual, discovery of

  legacy of

  meaning of

  and modern world, birth of

  motivation for joining

  and national identity

  as ongoing Apocalypse

  as penitential war

  reasons for

  and West vs. East

  and Western culture, foundations of

  Folkmar (monk)

  army of

  Fox (armored shell model). See also Weaponry

  France

  Francis (saint)

  Frankish identity

  Franks

  and Jews, conflating of, plate 12

  as new Israel

  style of

  Fulcher of Chartres

  and Alexius II, oaths to

  and Antioch

  and Armageddon

  and Ascalon

  and Baldwin of Boulogne

  and cannibalism

  and Constantinople

  and Dorylaeum

  and Jerusalem, massacre at

  and Jerusalem, rule of

  and Kerbogah, defeat of

  and Nicea

  Fulk (count of Anjou)

  Fulk Nerra (count of Anjou)

  Gabriel (archangel)

  Gabriele, Matthew

  Galdemar Carpenel

  Gaston of Béarn

  George (saint)

 

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