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Could the Crusades Have Started Decades Earlier? - Medievalists.net

Byzantine Emperor Constantine X Doukas may have sought Western military aid and invoked Jerusalem's liberation decades before the traditionally dated First Crusade.
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"A Noble Theme": Orderic Vitalis as a Historian of Crusade - Medievalists.net

Orderic Vitalis’s narrative of the First Crusade in the 1130s reveals how crusading narratives were shaped for monastic and regional audiences in medieval Europe, emphasizing the achievements of Norman figures.
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