1st Edition
Constructing the Muslim Adversary The Case of Raymond of Aguilers’ Historia Francorum
Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter I. The Image of Muslims as the ‘Other’ in Crusade Sources as a Subject of Scholarly Reflection: State of Research and Methodological Foundations
Chapter II. Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem – The Author and His Work
Chapter III. The Image of the Enemy in Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem
Chapter IV. Narratives of Battles, Sieges, and Commanders
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Tomasz Pełech, PhD, is a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. His research focuses on the First Crusade, the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, medieval kingship, and the political and religious culture of the Latin East, as well as Byzantium in the Komnenian period and Byzantine–Latin relations. He has published studies on crusade narratives, royal ideology, seals, diplomatic practice, and ecclesiastical institutions in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He is the author of monographs on Anna Komnene’s Alexias (2016) and Raymond of Aguilers (2025) and is currently researching kingship and political culture in crusader Jerusalem.
