Historia Hierosolymitana (Robert the Monk)
Historia Hierosolymitana is a chronicle of the First Crusade written between c. 1107–1120 by Robert the Monk (Robertus Monachus), a French prior.[1][2]
Chronicle
Robert has been identified with a prior of
Robert's chronicle contains an account of
According to Robert, Urban addressed his call explicitly to the race of the Franks, of which he was himself a member, invoking the valour of their ancestors, "the glory and greatness of king Charles the Great, and of his son Louis", culminating in "Oh, most valiant soldiers and descendants of invincible ancestors, be not degenerate, but recall the valour of your progenitors."[6]
Robert's version also describes the spontaneous reaction of Urban's audience, bursting into cries of Deus vult ("God wills it");[7] this motto and battle cry is also found in the Gesta Francorum, there in the more "vulgar" or vernacular form of Deus le volt. In a further element not found in Fulcher's account, and perhaps inspired after the fact by the failure of the People's Crusade, Urban warns that the expedition is not commanded or advised for the old or feeble, those unfit for bearing arms, or for women, but for experienced soldiers, that clergy should only take part with the consent of their bishop and laymen only with the blessing of their priest.[citation needed]
Robert's work was the likely source of
Publication history
An edition was produced for the Recueil des historiens des croisades series, appearing in 1866.[10] A modern critical edition of the work was published in 2013.[11] An English translation appeared in the Crusade Texts in Translation series in 2005.[12]
References
- ^ a b The text is dated to 1107 by Starck (2012) but somewhat later, to ca. 1116–1122, by Steven Runciman , The First Crusade (A History of the Crusades, Volume 1) Cambridge University Press (1951), Appendix I.
- ^ Mulinder, Alec. "Ekkehard of Aura". The Crusades - An Encyclopedia. p. 392.
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- ^ "it [the race of the Turks] has led away a part of the captives into its own country, and a part it has destroyed by cruel tortures; it has either entirely destroyed the churches of God or appropriated them for the rites of its own religion. They destroy the altars, after having defiled them with their uncleanness. They circumcise the Christians, and the blood of the circumcision they either spread upon the altars or pour into the vases of the baptismal font. When they wish to torture people by a base death, they perforate their navels, and dragging forth the extremity of the intestines, bind it to a stake; then with flogging they lead the victim around until the viscera having gushed forth the victim falls prostrate upon the ground. Others they bind to a post and pierce with arrows. Others they compel to extend their necks and then, attacking them with naked swords, attempt to cut through the neck with a single blow. What shall I say of the abominable rape of the women? To speak of it is worse than to be silent."
Madden, Thomas (2014-03-16). The Concise History of the Crusades. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 264. ISBN 9781442215740.
- ^ O fortissimi milites et invictorum propago parentum, nolite degenerari, sed virtutis priorum vestrorum reminiscimini. Le Bas (1866), p. 728.
- ^ Le Bas (1866), p. 729.
- ^ Bull, Marcus (2014). "Robert the Monk and His Source(s)". In Bull, Marcus; Kempf, Damien (eds.). Writing the Early Crusades: Text, Transmission and Memory. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 127–139.
- ^ Holzfurtner, Ludwig. "Metullus von Tegernsee". Deutsche Biographie. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ Recueil des Historiens des Croisades: Historiens Occidentaux (vol. 3). Paris: Imprimerie Royale. 1886. pp. 721–882.
- ^ Bull, M.; Kempf, D. G., eds. (2013). The Historia Iherosolimitana of Robert the Monk. Boydell Press.
- ^ Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005.
- Carol Sweetenham, Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade, Crusade Texts in Translation, vol. 11, Aldershot: Ashgate (2005).
- Georg Strack, "The Sermon of Urban II in Clermont and the Tradition of Papal Oratory", Medieval Sermon Studies 56 (2012), 30–45, DOI 10.1179/1366069112Z.0000000002 (uni-muenchen.de)