We who were Occidentals: the Emergence of Identity in the Crusader State of Jerusalem (1099-1187).
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2023-03-15
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The Crusaders are often portrayed as a homogeneous group united behind their common goal. Little emphasis is placed on the great diversity of the European settlers in the Levant, who came from all over Western Europe and spoke a number of different languages. This thesis will answer the question of how these crusaders, and their descendants, created a new united identity for themselves in the Kingdom of Jerusalem between the formation of the kingdom (1099) and the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin (1187). The kingdom will be explored through the lens of an Imagined Community with emphasis on markers of identity, both in manuscripts like those of Fulcher of Chartres as well as individual letters sent from the Levant to Europe. The importance of the First Crusade as a founding myth and the appropriation of biblical history of the city of Jerusalem itself, will additionally be examined.
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