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Robert the Monk's history of the First Crusade (1095-99), which was probably completed c. 1110, was in the nature of a medieval "bestseller", proving by far the most popular narrative of the crusade's events; the number of surviving manuscript copies far exceeds those of the many other accounts of the crusades written in the early decades of the twelfth century, when literary retellings of the crusaders' exploits were much in vogue. This volume presents the first critical edition to be published since the 1860s, grounded in a close study of the more than 80 manuscripts of the text that survive in libraries and archives across Europe. In their detailed introduction the editors explore the vexed problem of the author's identity, as well as the date of the text, its manuscript transmission, and the reasons for its success, for example among monasteries belonging to the Cistercian order in southern Germany.

Crusades --- Church history --- Croisades --- Eglise --- Sources. --- Sources --- Histoire --- 940.181 --- Kruistochten --- 940.181 Kruistochten --- Crusades - First, 1096-1099 - Sources --- Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Première croisade

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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 the so-called "eyewitness" accounts of the crusade and extending to numerous second-hand treatments in prose and verse. From the time when many of these accounts were first assembled in printed form by Jacques Bongars in the early seventeenth century, and even more so since their collective appearance in the great nineteenth-century compendium of crusade texts, the Recueil des historiens des croisades, narrative histories have come to be regarded as the single most important resource for the academic study of the early crusade movement. But our understanding of these texts is still far from satisfactory. This ground-breaking volume draws together the work of an international team of scholars. It tackles the disjuncture between the study of the crusades and the study of medieval history-writing, setting the agenda for future research into historical narratives about or inspired by crusading. The basic premise that informs all the papers is that narrative accounts of crusades and analogous texts should not be primarily understood as repositories of data that contribute to a reconstruction of events, but as cultural artefacts that can be interrogated from a wide range of theoretical, methodological and thematic perspectives

Crusades --- Croisades --- Sources. --- Historiography. --- Sources --- 1re croisade, 1096-1099 --- Historiographie --- Croisade, 1re, --- --Historiographie --- --Croisades, --- Croisade, 1re, 1096-1099 --- Croisades, 1096-1291 --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- Crusade Movement. --- Cultural Artefacts. --- First Crusade. --- Historical Narratives. --- Historical Writing. --- Medieval History. --- Medieval Texts. --- Narrative Histories. --- cultural artefacts. --- cultural dialogue. --- medieval Europe. --- medieval historical writing. --- methodological approaches. --- narrative accounts. --- theoretical perspectives.

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Paul the Deacon was undoubtedly one of the most prolific and gifted scholars of the early medieval period. Working for different patrons, first in his native Lombardy and then at the Frankish court, he left an impressive literary legacy, including a six-volume History of Rome and a History of the Lombards. All in all, Paul wrote more history than any of his contemporaries. He composed the Liber de episcopis Mettensibus around 784 at the behest of Angilram, bishop of Metz and chief counselor of Charlemagne. The text has received considerable attention from modern historians since it contains the first genealogy of the Carolingian family, one that establishes Arnulf, the seventh-century bishop of Metz, as Charlemagne’s forefather. However, rather than being a simple work of royal propaganda, composed to support and legitimize the Carolingians, who had usurped the throne only thirty years earlier with Pippin III’s coup in 751, the text subtly advances the prominent role of Metz within the Frankish kingdom. The present volume offers a new Latin edition of the Liber, including the late tenth-century interpolated section that both transformed the text and ensured its transmission. It also provides its first translation into a modern language. The introduction analyzes the textual strategies and the political claims at play in the Liber within the context of a reassessment of Angilram’s episcopacy (768–791) in Metz.

Carolingians --- Bishops --- Bischof. --- Bishops. --- Carolingians. --- History --- To 987. --- France --- Metz (France) --- Diözese Metz. --- France. --- Church history --- Literature --- Translations --- History and criticism --- Episcopacy --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Metz --- Evêques