Reporting on the crusades
For this presentation, you will be a reporter accompanying the western armies on crusade to the Latin East. You will explain who went on the First Crusade, why they went, and what they did. Describe their encounters with eastern Christians, Jews, and Muslims along the way. You will use primary sources, informed by secondary works, to present theories and ideas to the class in addition to narrative facts. The presentation itself may take any form, but must encourage class participation and incorporate in some way the following readings:
There are many translations of texts about the First Crusade. Dana C. Munro ["Urban and the Crusaders", Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History, Vol 1:2, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1895)] and August. C. Krey, [The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants, (Princeton: 1921)] both translated selections of crusader sources organized around events. There have been more recent translation of many of these texts [see WEB Crusader Sources in Translation], but they are still copyrighted. Here the texts by Krey and Munro are presented in two ways: first as printed - with collected texts from various historians on a specific issue; and then with all the available texts from each historian collected together.
Claude Cahen, "An Introduction to the First Crusade" Past and Present, No. 6. (Nov., 1954), pp. 6-30. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/649812.
David Malkiel,"Destruction or Conversion: Intention and Reaction, Crusaders and Jews, in 1096" Jewish History 15 (2001): 257-280. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20101451
Jonathan Phillips, "Who Were the First Crusaders?" History Today, 47 (March, 1997). Stable url: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9705062417&site=ehost-live
Jonathan Riley-Smith, The First Crusaders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). From library or limited preview on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=fQ1DnLPPXGIC&dq=%22the+first+crusaders%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s
C. J. Tyerman, "Were There Any Crusades in the Twelfth Century?" The English Historical Review, Vol. 110, No. 437. (Jun., 1995), pp. 553-577. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/578335
Dana Carleton Munro, "The Speech of Pope Urban II At Clermont, 1095" The American Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 2. (Jan., 1906), pp. 231-242. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1834642
Prepared 26 February
2003
Updated
12 March, 2010
T. Vann
Department of
History / College of Saint Benedict/St. John's University
www.csbsju.edu
email
tvann@csbsju.edu