الفهرس 
المقدمةيوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
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المستخلص
This study centers around Peter Tudebodus, a French priest that participated in the First Crusade. It highlights such events as Tudebodus’s leaving his homeland, Poitiers, for Constantinople with Bohemond’s army that seized Antioch, then joining Raymond of Saint-Gilles’s army with which Tudebodus entered Jerusalem.
The study focuses on Tudebodus’s approach and style of writing as reflected in his book The History of the Journey to Jerusalem, in which he deals with the events of the First Crusade, from the Council of Clermont to the Battle of Ascalon (i.e., from 1095 to 1099).
The study also compares Tudebodus’s view of the events in question to views expressed in other writings about the First Crusade, including Latin, Byzantine and Arab-Muslim writings. Tudebodus’s account often agrees with Latin accounts, but occasionally differs from them. Generally speaking, it expresses the Crusaders’ viewpoint, which is particularly clear from comparing Tudebodus’s writings to Anna Comnenus’s (which shows how Tudebodus hated the Byzantine Empire) and from comparing Tudebodus with Muslim writers, such as Ibn al-Atheer and Ibn Al-Qalanisi, whose perspective was completely different from Tudebodus’s due to their different religious backgrounds.
Tudebodus’s book, though important, was severely criticized, but it was also defended by many authors on the grounds that it was written by an eyewitness of the First Crusade. Among the defenders were John Hill and Laurita Hill, who translated Tudebodus’s book into English.