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Constantine, Helena and Heraclius in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2020
Abstract
Before the First Crusade, Constantine, Helena and Heraclius occupied an important place in the papal vision of the past. They had already been memorialised in the Latin liturgy, especially in the rituals of festivities surrounding the holy cross. The First Crusaders encountered Constantine, Helena and Heraclius as a part of the religious imagery at the very heart of Christian memory: at the Holy Sepulchre. This article presents research into whether and how the elite of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem developed the historical memory of Constantine, Helena and Heraclius, and argues that it was a central element in the political culture of the crusader states.
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AA = Albert of Aachen, Historia Ierosolimitana: History of the Journey to Jerusalem, ed. S. Edgington, Oxford 2007; CCCM = Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis; FC = Fulcheri Carnotensis Historia Hierosolymitana (1095–1127), ed. H. Hagenmeyer, Heidelberg 1913; WT = Willelmi Archiepiscopi Tyrensis Chronicon, ed. R. B. C. Huygens, CCCM lxiii, Turnhout 1986.
I am grateful to the De Brzezie Lanckoroński Foundation for financial aid that allowed me to work on this article in London libraries in August 2018. My thanks also to Professor M. Cecilia Gaposchkin for help in the course of the work on this article and to this Journal's anonymous expert reader whose advice was invaluable.
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