The Anonymous Historia regum Hierusalem Latinorum ad deplorationem perditionis terrae sanctae accomodata: A new edition, translation, and commentary

Buck, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1191-0723 and Edgington, Susan B. 2024. The Anonymous Historia regum Hierusalem Latinorum ad deplorationem perditionis terrae sanctae accomodata: A new edition, translation, and commentary. Crusades 22 (2) , pp. 141-190. 10.1080/14765276.2023.2288173

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Abstract

This article offers a new edition and translation, with accompanying commentary, of an anonymous text entitled by Charles Kohler in the nineteenth century as Historia regum Hierusalem Latinorum ad deplorationem perditionis Terrae Sanctae accommodata. Incorporating evidence drawn from the discovery of three new manuscript witnesses, it is argued that this text, which presents a history the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem from its foundation during the First Crusade through to Saladin’s capture of the Holy City in October 1187, was likely produced in the Latin East at the turn of the 1190s, contemporaneously with the events of the Third Crusade. Indeed, the Anonymous Historia is viewed here not only in the context of contemporary laments on Jerusalem’s loss, but as a possible exhortatio that sought to use the history of the Latin East as a vehicle to promote further crusading. Analysis of the text’s potential literary influences and early dissemination demonstrates its relationship to William of Tyre’s Chronicon, and brings forward the date of our earliest written witness to that famous narrative, as well as the Historia’s likely independence from the text known as Ernoul. The fact that we can find echoes of this text not only in the Holy Land, but in Angevin and German lands as well, adds another piece to the puzzle of exploring textual responses to the Latin East at the end of the twelfth century.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	2832-7861
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 March 2023
Date of Acceptance:	14 February 2023
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2024 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157626

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