The Social Structure of the First Crusade

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The Social Structure of the First Crusade
The Medieval Mediterranean
Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500
Managing Editor
Hugh Kennedy
SOAS, London
Editors
Paul Magdalino, St. Andrews
David Abula(cid:192) a, Cambridge
Benjamin Arbel, Tel Aviv
Larry J. Simon, Western Michigan University
Olivia Remie Constable, Notre Dame
VOLUME 76
The Social Structure
of the First Crusade
By
Conor Kostick
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2008
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Cover illustration: “Dieu le veule—Peter The Hermit preaching the First Crusade” by
James Archer (1823–1904)
© Photograph by K. Ross Hookway
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kostick, Conor, 1964–
The social structure of the First Crusade / by Conor Kostick.
p. cm. — (The Medieval Mediterranean ; 76)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–90–04–16665–3 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Crusades—First, 1096–1099.
2. Civilization, Medieval. 3. Social classes—Europe—History—To 1500. I. Title.
D161.2.K67 2008
956’.014—dc22
2008009738
ISSN 0928–5520
ISBN 978 90 04 16665 3
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In Memoriam
Anne Walsh

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ....................................................................... ix
Abbreviations ................................................................................ xi
Introduction .................................................................................. 1
Chapter One: The Eyewitnesses .................................................. 9
Chapter Two: The Early Historians ............................................ 51
Chapter Three: Pauperes and the First Crusade: From the
Preaching of the Crusade to the Rise of the Visionaries ....... 95
Chapter Four: Pauperes and the First Crusade: From Antioch to
Jerusalem ................................................................................... 131
Chapter Five: Milites: Knights or Simply Mounted Warriors? ... 159
Chapter Six: Iuvenes: The Glory-Seeking Knights of the
Crusade ..................................................................................... 187
Chapter Seven: Principes and the Crusading Nobility .................. 213
Chapter Eight: The Leadership of the First Crusade ................ 243
Chapter Nine: Women and the First Crusade: Prostitutes or
Pilgrims? .................................................................................... 271
Conclusion .................................................................................... 287
Bibliography .................................................................................. 301
Index ............................................................................................. 315