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1096. Bohémond et les Normands d'Italie partent pour Jérusalem. Un croisé raconte : la bataille d'Ascalon, le passage du Bosphore, le siège de Nicée puis celui de Constantinople, la bravoure de Tancrède de Hauteville ou les iniquités de l'empereur Alexis, autant de « choses vues » présentes dans L'Histoire anonyme de la 1ère Croisade. Le narrateur, probablement un chevalier italien rallié aux troupes de Bohémond de Tarente, n'a rien d'un observateur neutre: il fait part de son enthousiasme pour la croisade, de sa haine des « païens » (infidèles et idolâtres confondus!) et relate avec ferveur les massacres les plus violents, la décapitation des prisonniers ou les combats contre les Turcs qui, « s'ils étaient chrétiens », seraient « les premiers chevaliers du monde ».Épique et subjectif, un récit passionnant. Les Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum sont une des sources majeures de l'histoire de la première croisade (1095-1099). Le livre propose une édition bilingue de ce texte fondamental, richement annotée et précédée d'une introduction succincte, fournissant tous les éléments nécessaires à la bonne intelligence du récit.

Croisade, 1re, 1096-1099

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Fulcher of Chartres --- Crusades --- Croisades --- History --- Sources --- 1re croisade, --- Histoire --- Foucher de Chartres, --- Foulcher de Chartres, --- Croisade, 1re, --- Foucher de Chartres --- -Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- -Sources --- Foulcher de Chartres --- Fulcher Carnotensis --- Church history --- Crusades - First, 1096-1099 - Sources --- Croisade, 1re, 1096-1099 --- Foulcher de Chartres, 1059-1127

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This book investigates the life and posthumous cultural reputation of Godfrey of Bouillon (d.1100). Godfrey is a hugely significant figure in whom a number of crucial themes in medieval history intersect. As duke of Lower Lotharingia, he occupied a position of considerable political importance in the German Empire in the latter part of the eleventh century, the age of the 'Investiture Controversy'. He was a leader of the First Crusade, a seminal event in medieval history. At the conclusion of the expedition in July 1099, he was appointed as the first ruler of the kingdom of Jerusalem, the principal Latin state established by the crusaders in the Holy Land. After his death, cultural traditions regarding his life and character circulated widely throughout Latin Christendom, and within a few generations he had come to be revered alongside figures like Charlemagne and Arthur as a heroic Christian warrior. The book is divided into two distinct yet complementary parts. Part One is a cultural biography of Godfrey, written using only contemporary sources. This is the first full-length biographical study of Godfrey to be written in English in almost 70 years. Part Two is an original contribution to modern scholarship, investigating the development of Godfrey's reputation in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It explores how Godfrey was portrayed after his death in a wide range of sources, including Latin and vernacular chronicles (both prose and verse), chansons de geste, charters, hagiographies, letters, pilgrim texts, legal treatises and genealogies.

Crusades --- Knights and knighthood --- Godefroi, --- Croisade, 1re, --- Chevalier --- --Chevalerie --- --France --- --Biographie --- --Jérusalem, --- Lorraine --- --Godfrey, --- Godfrey, --- Family --- Jerusalem --- Lorraine (France) --- History --- Kings and rulers --- Crusades - First, 1096-1099 - Biography --- Knights and knighthood - France - Biography --- Croisade, 1re, 1096-1099 --- Chevalerie --- Biographie --- Godfrey, - of Bouillon, - approximately 1060-1100 --- Godfrey, - of Bouillon, - approximately 1060-1100 - Family --- Godefroi, 1061-1100 --- France --- Jérusalem, --- Jerusalem - History - Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244 - Biography --- Lorraine (France) - Kings and rulers - Biography