Gesta Francorum & The Crusades?

So I have to write a paper on the Gesta Francorum..

This is what I have to answer

1) Why it's important

2) What does it tell about the people at that time

3) What is its impact

Comments

  • 1)

    It's an eyewitness account by a knight who took part in the First Crusade who was not an important noble or leader.It therefore gives the point of view of an ordinary knight in the Crusader army,and also lots of detail about day to day opeartions and tactics of the Crusader army during the First Crusade.

    2)

    That they were violent,Western Europeans didn't know much about the wider world,they were very religious,they didn't like Greeks Byzantines,or Moslems much.

    3)

    It was very popular,and copied and rewritten many times.It ecncouraged other knights to go to the Holy Land.

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