The Crusaders Lost Fort - The Battle At Jacobs Ford

During the First Crusade (1095–99) the Franks cannibalized the Muslim dead at the city of Ma'arra. More than a dozen narrative sources describe this act, but with significant differences in detail. Through an examination of the different accounts and of the probable historical, biblical, and literary models used to shape them, this article suggests that cannibalism was in part a product of necessity but also that the crusaders used it as a tool of psychological warfare. Their status as God’s warriors and their project of holy war both justified and inspired such tactics. The article thus questions the direction of current scholarship, which sees the First Crusade as a result of ordinary medieval practices of warfare and piety, rather than as an unprecedented event as disconcerting to medieval sensibilities as to modern ones. Durant la Premiere Croisade (1095–99) les Francs se nourrirent de la chair des Musulmans morts a la ville de Ma'arra. Ce fait est atteste par plus d’une douzaine de sources, mais dont les details different significativement. A travers l’examen des differents comptes rendus ainsi que des probables modeles historiques, bibliques et litteraires qui les ont inspires, cet article suggere que le cannibalisme fut en partie cause par la necessite, mais aussi que les croises en firent egalement un outil de guerre psychologique. Leur qualite de combattants de Dieu comme leur projet de guerre sainte justifiaient et inspiraient de telles tactiques. L’article questionne ainsi l’historiographie qui voit la Premiere Croisade comme le produit des pratiques medievales ordinaires de guerre et de piete davantage que comme un evenement exceptionnel et troublant pour les hommes medievaux ainsi que pour les modernes.

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