1st Edition

The Road to Antioch and Jerusalem The Crusader Pilgrimage of the Monte Cassino Chronicle

By Francesca Petrizzo Copyright 2024
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

This is the first translation of the Hystoria de via or ‘Monte Cassino Chronicle,’ one of the few surviving crusader sources from Southern Italy, where it was probably compiled (partly from known sources) between the 1130s and 1140s. The chronicle’s original sections offer new and fresh insight on the knowledge and reception of the First Crusade in Southern Italy, and the devotional and... Read more

Introduction

The Road to Antioch and Jerusalem

Biography

Francesca Petrizzo is currently lecturer in medieval history at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on practitioners of violence and their uses of the past to legitimize themselves between the central Middle Ages and medievalism in later ages.