True Romans: Remembering the Crusades among Eastern Christians

True Romans: Remembering the Crusades among Eastern ChristiansJournal of Medieval HistorySyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/UZIH5KNR/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Christopher HatchMacEvittTrue Romans: Remembering the Crusades among Eastern Christianshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/UZIH5KNRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/UZIH5KNRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/UZIH5KNRJournal of Medieval History40:32014260-275For Christians of Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia, the First Crusade and subsequent settlements brought confusion to the political and theological order of the world. Previously, the world existed as a stable balance between two divinely established forces: the divinely established empire of the Romans (the Byzantines), and the empire of the Muslims, equally established by divine providence, but intended to serve as the hammer with which God punished errant Christians. Western Christians (Franks) were peripheral to this world; at the time of the First Crusade, the Franks were commonly perceived as Byzantine mercenaries. After the Franks conquered Jerusalem, the city central to providential history, Armenians and Jacobites began to ask: who were the true Romans? The term in both Armenian and Syriac texts began to be applied to the Franks instead of the Byzantines, particularly in apocalyptic and providential schemes of history. MacEvitt, Christopher Hatch. “True Romans: Remembering the Crusades among Eastern Christians.” Journal of Medieval History 40:3 (2014): 260–75. Christopher Hatch MacEvitt, True Romans: Remembering the Crusades among Eastern Christians, Journal of Medieval History 40:3 (2014): 260–75.CrusadersJacobitesMuslim-Christian relationsRoman empireVII-XVIII CEXII CE