This thesis analyzes the narrative structure and tropes of the De liberatione civitatum orientis by Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone. The goal of this project is threefold: first, to provide a closer reading of Caffaro's text than has previously been offered; second, to criti…
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Peter the Hermit: Straddling the Boundaries of Lordship, Millennialism, and Heresy demonstrates how eleventh and early twelfth century wandering preachers established millennial spiritual lordship over their popular movements. Peter the Hermit's Popular Crusade exemplifies this.…
This dissertation examines the formation, acceptance, and dissolution of some anti-Jewish stereotypes in medieval England. The origins of beliefs in Jewish anti-Christian malevolence, cruelty, and financial dishonesty are considered first within the broader context of pan-Europe…
The army of the First Crusade set out to conquer Jerusalem in 1096. This dissertation examines the logistics of the First Crusade—the movement and supply of its composite contingents—to arrive at a fuller understanding of how Europeans of the eleventh century were able to send t…
The reign of King Baldwin I (1100-1118) has thus far received little noteworthy attention by historians as the important pivotal period following the First Crusade conquest of Jerusalem in 1099. The two decades of his rule marked the extension of Latin conquests in the east, mos…
In the first half of the twelfth century CE, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) imagined and provided justification for a new way to fold violence into the life of Christian discipleship, through the Knights Templar. In between the First and Second Crusade (1095-1146), the Order o…