Crusader States -section B Flashcards
Fulcher of chartes
Priest who participated in the 1st crusade. Produced a restrained portrait of the empire - said only princes in the crusade. View restricted due to priesthood? A lot of wrong going on and reluctant to write about it and write the truth. Maybe thought it was gonna be a genuine pilgrimage. Nevertheless still a first hand account. Appointed chaplain to Baldwin of bougouine in 1097
John of Wurzburg
John went to the Kingdom of Jerusalem as a pilgrim and in ca. 1170
he related his experiences and the information he had gathered about the places he had visited (or hoped to visit) in a pilgrim guide book to be consulted by others with similar ambitions or simply curious about the holy places.
His name already indicates that he came from Germany (Würzburg is in Franconia, which is now part of Bavaria) and this passage shows that by association of his national heritage he related very strongly to the events that shaped the crusader kingdom.
It also gives some details of the history of the kingdom of Jerusalem up to that time, although John evidently felt strongly that the part played by the Germans in the crusader conquest of the Holy Land had been unjustly neglected and even concealed by the Frankish inhabitants of Outremer.
John of Wurzburg
John went to the Kingdom of Jerusalem as a pilgrim and in ca. 1170
he related his experiences and the information he had gathered about the places he had visited (or hoped to visit) in a pilgrim guide book to be consulted by others with similar ambitions or simply curious about the holy places.
His name already indicates that he came from Germany (Würzburg is in Franconia, which is now part of Bavaria) and this passage shows that by association of his national heritage he related very strongly to the events that shaped the crusader kingdom.
It also gives some details of the history of the kingdom of Jerusalem up to that time, although John evidently felt strongly that the part played by the Germans in the crusader conquest of the Holy Land had been unjustly neglected and even concealed by the Frankish inhabitants of Outremer.
Jacques de Vitry
French cleric - newly appointed bishop of acre. Became cardinal Bishop of tusculum. Died 1240. Wrote geographies of holy land
Benjamin of Tudela
Benjamin of Tudela was a Jewish merchant from Tudela in northern Spain who between 1165 and 1173 travelled extensively through Europe, Africa and Asia. Throughout his journey he made it a habit to visit, or at least take record of, Jewish communities.
He gives the number of Jews he found in each place, though it is not clear in many instances whether he is speaking of individuals or of householders, and in some cases such as Baghdad, the figures seem to be exaggerated.
Diya al-Din
Writing from Damascus after Saladin’s conquest in 1187, Diya al-Din reflects on the reasons for his people’s emigration.
This text concerns the Hanbalis, a radical Islamic sect from around Nablus whose members fled to Damascus in the 1150s.
Ibn Jubayr
Ibn Jubayr was a Spanish Muslim from Granada who made the hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca in the mid-1180s. He spent a short period of time in the Latin East in 1184. Here he recounts the treatment of his co-religionists under Latin Christian rule.
