Historia Hierosolymitana (Latin Edition)

Fulcher of Chartres stands among the most important Latin chroniclers of the First Crusade and the earliest decades of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Beginning with Pope Urban II’s summons at the Council of Clermont in 1095, the Historia Hierosolymitana follows the armies of the First Crusade across Europe and Asia Minor, through the sieges of Nicaea and Antioch, and onward to the conquest of Jerusalem. Fulcher then carries his history beyond the crusade itself, recording the reigns of Baldwin I and Baldwin II and the consolidation of the new Latin kingdom in the East.

Fulcher was not a distant compiler. He traveled east with the crusaders, became chaplain to Baldwin of Boulogne, and spent much of the remainder of his life in the lands whose turbulent history he recorded. His chronicle combines military narrative, political history, religious interpretation, eyewitness observation, and vivid descriptions of the peoples and landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean.

Covering the years 1095–1127 in three books, the Historia Hierosolymitana is an indispensable primary source for the First Crusade and the first generation of the Crusader States.

This Nicholean Press edition presents the complete Latin text in a newly typeset reading edition, accompanied by a Latin glossary and indexes of persons and places.