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By Peter W. Edbury, John Gordon Rowe
William, archbishop of Tyre from 1175 to c.1184, used to be a churchman, royal servant and student who lived within the Latin state of Jerusalem. Born in Jerusalem round 1130, he studied in western Europe for nearly two decades until eventually 1165, while he lower back to the East to start his profession in public existence. He left to posterity a enormous historical past during which he defined the occasions of the 1st campaign (1095-9) and recorded the fortunes of the western rulers of the states thus based in Syria and the Holy Land all the way down to his personal day. the price of his paintings to illustrate of twelfth-century historiography and as a resource of knowledge for the occasions defined has lengthy been famous. during this examine the authors contemplate William as a public determine and historian, and consider the affects which bore upon his writing and how during which he formed his fabric. They then move directly to study what he needed to say approximately convinced subject matters - the monarchy in Jerusalem, the Church, the papacy, the Byzantine empire and the campaign - and why he wrote as he did.
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33 It is a measure of the value of his writings to modern scholars that, although biographical details of many laymen and clerics are known thanks to his recording them, William found no clerical historian of comparable stature to succeed him, and so the year of his own death is unrecorded and remains uncertain. 31 32 33 Hiestand, ' Z u m Leben', p . 351 etpassim. E d b u r y and R o w e , 'Patriarchal Election', p p . 10-11. Mayer ('Zum Tode') argued on the basis of a document dated 17 Oct. 1186 (RRH Additamentum, p.
In so large a work, composed over the course of a number of years, it comes as no surprise to find on close examination flaws and unevenness. 11 In places the connection between events described is inadequately explained. What, for example, was William doing in Constantinople during the winter of 1179-80, and why did he then travel to Antioch at the emperor's behest? 12 There are also abrupt changes in tempo, the most dramatic being the sudden switch to detailed narrative for the Egyptian campaign of 1167 (occupying eighteen chapters in Book xix) after the extremely sketchy reporting of the events of the previous four years.
But the very fact that he had been alive at the time, could remember his own immediate reactions and those of his contemporaries and had known many of the leading figures personally gave him a critical understanding and appreciation of what had been going on. By contrast, his perception of the events of preceding generations depended largely on unverifiable traditions, and from remarks in the preamble to Book xvi it is clear that he felt less secure about the adequacy of his account of them. 1 At that date he would have been in his teens, just a few years before his departure to the West to study in the Schools of France and Italy.