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3 - Classical and Christian influences in the Historia
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Even if the autobiographical chapter in which William described his studies in western Europe had remained lost to view, there would be no questioning the nature of his educational background. The Historia itself provides ample testimony to the breadth of his learning and to the influences which bore upon him. In the light of his long sojourn in the Schools of the West it comes as no surprise to find evidence throughout his work of his indebtedness to the authors of pagan antiquity and the earlier Christian centuries, whether in his choice of words and his use of quotations, in the information he wished to impart, or indeed in the form and genre of his historical writing itself.
In a masterly fashion his modern editor has provided us with a scholarly apparatus, identifying the sources of his quotations and classical allusions and also drawing attention to a large number of instances in which his phraseology is reminiscent of those ancient or Christian writers whose works were widely read and admired in the twelfth century. Frequently, as we might expect from an educated churchman, William quoted the Vulgate version of the Bible or used expressions which call to mind phrases from it, and he also echoed the wording of the liturgy. The list of pagan authors Professor Huygens has noted as providing the origins for other verbal echoes is long – Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Sallust, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Quintilian, Statius, Persius, Lucan, Juvenal and Suetonius – as is the list of Christian writers – Jerome, Augustine, Orosius, Prudentius, Sulpicius Severus, Boethius, Benedict of Nursia, Cassiodorus, Gregory the Great and Einhard.
5 - The monarchy
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In the preceding books we have, after a fashion, described the remarkable deeds of those brave men who for eighty years and more have held dominion in our part of the East and in particular in Jerusalem.
Thus William of Tyre, writing in the preface to Book XXIII of the Historia, surveyed his work. The deeds of rulers, especially the kings of Jerusalem, had featured prominently. The early books had recorded the events of the First Crusade, giving the limelight to its leaders. The Crusade over, it had been the same men, Godfrey, Baldwin of Boulogne, Raymond, Bohemond and Tancred, who ruled in the territories that had been won, and so the transition from the description of the Crusade to the description of what followed worked smoothly. In his Prologue, William had spoken of the Historia as a gesta regum, and so in large measure it is. But, as he went on to say, writing of the deeds of kings poses moral problems for the historian: should he tell the truth or engage in flattery? After all, descendants of these men might read what he had written and take offence.
Part of William's intention was to inspire people to renewed efforts by recounting the achievements of past rulers. These men had had a role to play in the unfolding of divine providence, but William made some attempt to give them individual characteristics and not to portray them simply as stereotypes.
9 - The war against the infidel
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If there is one unifying thread which runs right through the Historia, it is the waging of war against the Muslims. The First Crusade, with its triumphant successes in capturing Antioch and Jerusalem, occupies the first eight books. Thereafter the story of the extension of the territory under Christian rule and of its defence dominates the narrative. William's account of the royal dynasty of Jerusalem is largely an account of the kings as leaders in war. But it is not simply the story of the crusaders and the Christians settled in the East winning and defending a particular tract of land. The Crusade was a holy war, God's war, and concerned the holiest shrines in Christendom. So, when the Christian enterprise faltered, questions of a theological or moral nature were bound to be asked. By the time William was writing there had been too many set-backs for comfort: the expeditions into Egypt had failed; the kingdom was encircled by Saladin's armies. Earlier Edessa had been lost and the Second Crusade had come to nought. People would want to know why, and explanations solely in terms of Muslim military capabilities would not do. Why should God allow the unbelievers to triumph? Was the present generation of Christians unworthy? If God had ceased to favour the Christian cause in the East, was there any point in His people trying to defend the Holy Land?
1 - William's career
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Most of what we know about the life and work of William, archbishop of Tyre, comes from what he himself recorded in the Historia Ierosolymitana. The Historia, both by what it is and by what it tells us about its author, makes it abundantly clear that he was a gifted man, and thanks to its survival more is known about him than about any of his contemporaries in the ecclesiastical hierarchy in the East. William enjoyed a successful career, but one which followed a well-trodden path, familiar to many successful churchmen in twelfth-century Latin Christendom. What is distinctive about him was that he added the vocation of historian to the vocations of royal servant and prelate. His legacy is among the more memorable and important pieces of historical writing from the entire medieval period.
A detailed reconstruction of his life is not possible, and there are major questions, in particular about the nature of his political role in his closing years, which remain unanswerable. However, the discovery of the autobiographical chapter in which he described his early career has done much to illuminate his life before the mid-1160s. We now know for certain that he was born in the city of Jerusalem and that he spent almost twenty years studying in the Schools of western Europe. The date for his return to the East can be established as 1165, and this would put the date for his departure to Europe as c. 1146.
Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought
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PART II - WILLIAM OF TYRE AND THE MEANING OF THE ‘HISTORIA’
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Introduction
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Historians are unanimous: the work by William II, archbishop of Tyre, which until recently has been known as the Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum, but which might better be entitled Historia Ierosolymitana, is important and influential. William flourished in the kingdom of Jerusalem during the reigns of King Amaury (1163–74) and his son, Baldwin IV (1174–85), and he provided the Latin kingdom with an account of its foundation and history, spanning the period from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 until the year 1184. The Historia begins with a brief survey of the background to the First Crusade, going back to the recovery of the True Cross by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius early in the seventh century, before proceeding to recount the story of the Crusade (Books I–VIII) and the fortunes of the Latins in the lands they conquered (Books IX–XXIII). It is a long work: in the most recent edition William's Latin text fills just under a thousand pages. Its very size makes it difficult to view as a whole, and for this reason scholars have been far more ready to use it as a quarry for historical information than to try to assess its strengths and weaknesses as an example of twelfth-century historiography or to seek to examine the presuppositions and attitudes of its author. As a quarry for historical information it has long been recognized as being of the utmost importance.
4 - William and his sources
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William of Tyre took the view that his personal experience provided the key for writing about the events of his own lifetime. Some events he had witnessed in person; others he had learnt of from others. 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. He chose to signal the transition from his narration of past events to the account of his own generation with the accession of King Baldwin III in 1143. 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. To the modern historian there is nothing very different about the tone and content of the Historia for the decades either side of 1143, and we might prefer to divide the work at 1127, the point at which his last extant literary source, the Historia Hierosolymitana of Fulcher of Chartres, breaks off, and again at 1165, when William returned to the East and began his career in the hurly-burly of Latin Syrian public life.
6 - Regnum and ecclesia
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Just as William of Tyre had views about the monarchy, so too he had views about the Church and the nature of the relationship between priest and king. Although he was well placed to write about the history of the Church in the Latin East, the Historia was not conceived as an ecclesiastical history, and when he did introduce material of ecclesiastical interest it was normally only incidental to his narrative. Indeed, on occasion he in effect admitted that by writing about such matters he had allowed himself to digress from his main purpose. As mentioned already, it seems that William introduced much of his ecclesiastical material at the time he was making his revisions following his attendance at the Third Lateran Council and his realization that his work could be of interest to a clerical audience in western Europe. But, because much of his information on the Church had only a tangential bearing on the main thrust of his political history and may well have been added as something of an afterthought, there are many aspects of the history of its growth and organization which either escape mention altogether or receive only the briefest reference. William, for all his concern with the royal dynasty, nowhere gave any clear indication of the extent of royal control over the Church: we can search the Historia in vain in the hope of discovering whether the kings enjoyed rights of spolia and regalia during episcopal or abbatial vacancies; nor do we find allusions to disputes between the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the secular princes over tithes, even though other evidence survives to prove that such disputes had occurred.
Contents
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7 - The papacy
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There is never any question that William of Tyre accepted the papacy's own claims to apostolic authority within Christendom. His respect for the importance of papal office is immediately apparent from his condemnation of Guibert of Ravenna, the anti-pope installed by Henry IV in 1080, and by his comments on the threat to Christian Europe caused by the schism of 1130. He noted with approval how the schism which had originated in 1080 was settled in the early 1120s, how the irregular election of Pope Honorius II in 1124 was rectified, and how the 1159 schism was eventually brought to an end in 1177. He was also at pains to emphasize the role of Urban II in launching the First Crusade, and of Eugenius III in launching the Second. Both popes were spoken of warmly. William stressed Urban's God-given eloquence, and Eugenius too was a ‘godly man’. On the other hand, in recording the election of Pope Lucius III in 1181, William remarked that the new pope was ‘somewhat elderly and not very (“modice”) learned’. It is a dismissive description which might easily be passed over were it not for the fact that Lucius was still pope at the time of writing. Of his predecessor, Pope Alexander III, whose long pontificate (1159–81) spanned almost the whole of William's public career, he was equally dismissive. Scattered through the pages of the Historia are a mere handful of references to him, and William avoided making any comment at all on either his personality or his achievements.
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PART I - WILLIAM OF TYRE AND THE WRITING OF THE ‘HISTORIA’
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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This is a study of a medieval historian and what he had to say. It is the fruit of a collaboration originally conceived almost ten years ago and has taken far longer to complete than it should. The distance between Cardiff and London, Ontario, and our other commitments, provide excuses, albeit rather feeble ones. More seriously, we found that the price of being engaged on a genuinely collaborative undertaking was that our labour was increased rather than diminished as points of detail were thrashed out and drafts passed to and fro across the Atlantic.
Work was already well advanced when Professor Robert Huygens' new edition of William of Tyre's history was published. It is difficult for us to express adequately our indebtedness to him for what has proved to be of enormous assistance in the final stages of our research.
Appreciation and thanks for their generous help in many different ways and at widely differing stages of our work are due to many people, not least: Dr D. R. Bates, Miss J. Buckingham, Mr Ceri Davies, Professor R. B. C. Huygens, Dr C. H. Knowles, Professor J. R. Lander, Professor J. S. C. Riley-Smith, the late Dr R. C. Smail, and Professor W. H. Stockdale; also the staff of the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the libraries at University College Cardiff and the University of Western Ontario, where in particular we would mention Dr R. E. Lee, the chief librarian, and his colleagues Mr R. Gardiner and Mr G. Malcahy.
2 - William's historical writings
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Besides the Historia, William informs us that he had written two other works: an account of the decrees of the Third Lateran Council of 1179, with a list of participants, and a history of the Muslim world perhaps entitled Gesta orientalium principum. Both are now lost. William claimed that he wrote his account of the Lateran Council at the request of the other clergy present on that occasion, and he referred his readers to a copy in the cathedral archive at Tyre. The Muslim history was said to have been written at the behest of King Amaury, who had enabled him to carry out his task by providing him with copies of Arabic historical writings including one by the tenth-century patriarch of Alexandria, Sa'īd ibn Batrīk. William alluded to this other work of his no fewer than five times in the Historia, making it clear that in it he had covered the entire span of Muslim history from the time of Muhammad down to his own day. He made contradictory statements about the date at which it ended: twice he stated that it stopped in the year 570 A.H. (i.e. 1174/5), but he wrongly gave the equivalent year of the Christian era as, on one occasion, 1182 and, on the other, 1184; on a third occasion he said that the work ended in 577 A.H., which he correctly identified as A.D. 1181.
8 - The Byzantine empire
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The relationship of the crusaders and their successors in Latin Syria with the Greeks of the Byzantine empire is a subject which deservedly has occupied the attention of historians. Without doubt the crusading movement made a major contribution to the growing estrangement between the Catholic West and the Orthodox East in the course of the twelfth century. At the time of the First Crusade the Greeks and the westerners had each benefited from the other's assistance, but soon mutual incomprehension and conflicting political ambitions in the East gave rise to disputes and bitter recrimination. However, relations were not uniformly sour throughout the period, and many contemporaries continued to envisage cooperation. In the twelfth century, as in later periods, Byzantium and its rulers had both detractors and apologists, and William of Tyre was among those who had much to say in this connection.
A considerable amount of material dealing with Byzantine affairs is included in the Historia, and it is important to understand William's attitudes towards the Greeks in order to evaluate his perception of their relations with the Latins. He was well placed to provide an appraisal of the empire and its emperors. Twice, in 1168 and in 1179–80, he had been engaged in diplomatic activities in Byzantium, and he had also had dealings with the Byzantine envoys to Jerusalem in 1177.
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