Documents for History 301 - Jerusalem

Byzantine/Early Christian Jerusalem

• Eusebius - On Constantine and Jerusalem
• A short essay on St. Helen and the True Cross
• Julian - Letter to the Jews
  • A huge array of sources online about Julian.
  • Ammianus Marcillinus - On The Temple. (About Ammianus)
• Life of Daniel the Stylite
• Heraklios
  • A pretty picture!
• Jerusalem Mosaic. Commentary.
• Travelers to Jerusalem

Islamic Jerusalem

• Arculf, De Locis Sanctis, 680 C.E. (shortly after conquest).
  • Skip down a bit to the Introduction and you get a good description of Jerusalem. Still a vibrant Christian city.
• Wilibald, The Travels of Wilibald, 721-727
• Bernard the Wise, 867
• Nasir-i-Khusraw (1046-1052) Balkh. The link to the text is here. This is the key text for this week.
• Quran - Surah 17 - the Night Journey. (More complex version with audio).
• "Jerusalem in the Quran" - a contentious political book.
• Links to some maps on Islam from another of my courses.
  
• Pact of Umar

Crusader Jerusalem- My course on the Crusades.

• The Kingdom of Jerusalem (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • Government
    • William of Tyre: Godfrey Of Bouillon Becomes "Defender Of The Holy Sepulcher.
    • The Latin Kings of Jerusalem (chronology).
  • Economics
    • The Taxes of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
  • Cultures
    • Fulcher (Fulk) of Chartres: The Latins in the East (Chronicle, Bk III).
  • Christian Muslim Interaction
    • Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188): Autobiography: Excerpts on the Franks, c.1175 CE.
    • Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188): On European Piracy, c.1175 CE. [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
    • Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188): On Muslim and Christian Piety, c.1175 CE. [At CCNY]
    • A Christian-Muslim Debate [12th Century].
    • Bills of Sale for Saracen Slave Girls, 1248
  • Structure of the kingdom
• Templars
  • St. Bernard of Clairvaux, In Praise of New Knighthood
  • Rule of the Templars
• 1187
  • Latin Problems
    • William of Tyre: Latin Disarray, 1150-1185.
    • Aymeric, patriarch of Antioch: The Decline of Christian Power in the Holy Land, 1164, Letter to Louis VII of France.
    • Ansbert: Letter from the East to the Master of the Hospitallers, 1187.
  • The Loss of Jerusalem
    • Ernoul: The Battle of Hattin, 1187.
    • De Expugatione Terrae Sanctae: The Battle of Hattin, 1187.
    • De Expugatione Terrae Sanctae: The Capture of Jerusalem by Saladin, 1187.
    • Roger of Hoveden: The Fall Of Jerusalem, 1187.
  • Arab sources will be copied and handed out as they are not online.
    • Along with - Ibn Battuta, Muslim Traveler to Jerusalem

Jerusalem in Western Medieval Culture

• Veneri's powerpoint on maps.
• Primary Sources
  • Daniel (1106-1107) Russia
  • Benjamin of Tudela (1160-1173) Spain
  • Theoderich (1172) Germany
  • Ibn Jubayr (1183) Spain
  • Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324) Venice
  • Bar Sauma (c. 1278-1313) China
  • Anonymous Guidbook to Palestine (c. 1350)
  • Margery Kempe (1413-1415) England
  • John Poloner (1422) Germany?
  • Pero Tafur (1435-39) Spain
  • Felix Fabri (1480 & 1483-84) Germany
  • Pietro Casola (1494) Milan
• Secondary Sources on Jerusalem in the West
  • A Guide to Mental Pilgrimage: Paris, Bibliotheque de L'Arsenal Ms. 212
    • Author(s): Kathryn M. Rudy
    • Source: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 63 Bd., H. 4 (2000), pp. 494-515
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1594960
  • The Church of Santo Stefano: A "Jerusalem" in Bologna
    • Author(s): Robert G. Ousterhout
    • Source: Gesta, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1981), pp. 311-321
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/766940