The Facticity of Medieval Narrative: A Case Study of the Hebrew First Crusade Narratives
Robert Chazan
In the early stages of modern rewriting medieval Jewish history, sources most consulted and adduced were narrative. As enterprise has matured, further source genres have been discovered utilized, thus allowing for improved understanding experience. Of late, reliability narrative come under question, but at same time these utilized in new creative ways. To be sure, both questioning innovative utilization profoundly influenced by similar tendencies among general medievalists, as they seek to refine their tools historical reconstruction.
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