A peer-reviewed source-critical study of every medieval Latin and Arabic account of the First Crusade's July 1099 massacre at Jerusalem, weighing each source's reliability rather than repeating the highest surviving figure.
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Published in Crusades, the field's peer-reviewed journal, by a leading historian of the crusader states; the standard scholarly treatment weighing the massacre's wide range of reported casualty figures against each chronicle source's own reliability and vantage point. NotesPublished in Crusades, the field's peer-reviewed journal, by a leading historian of the crusader states; the standard scholarly treatment weighing the massacre's wide range of reported casualty figures against each chronicle source's own reliability and vantage point.
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AuthorBenjamin Z. Kedar
PublisherCrusades, vol. 3, Routledge
Publication Year2004
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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This source names Jerusalem directly: "First Crusade's July 1099 massacre at Jerusalem, weighing each source's reliability rather than repeating the highest surviving figure."
Source The Jerusalem Massacre of July 1099 in the Western Historiography of the CrusadesBenjamin Z. Kedar
Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)
This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Religious Events, 3 claims: 2 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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