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30 - History
University of Liverpool
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Article title
L’histoire toute crue: la Première Croisade au miroir de son Histoire
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Médiévales
Article number
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Volume number
58
Issue number
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First page of article
151
ISSN of journal
1777-5892
Year of publication
2010
URL
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Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This article calls for a new methodological approach to narrative sources related to the First Crusade. These sources have traditionally been used by historians as mere repositories of facts to reconstruct the events of the expedition. By offering a revisionist reading of the Gesta Francorum, considered to be the oldest and most ‘truthful’ account of the First Crusade, the authors show that a reconsideration of the social and cultural conditions governing the production of narrative sources can shed a new light on the crusading movement and its impact on western medieval society.
