The So-Called Ansbert and Emperor Barbarossa on the Crusade. Crusading Purposefulness or the Avoidance of Local Entanglement?
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Herrschen und (Nicht-)Entscheiden. Politisches Handeln im Reich und Ostmitteleuropa des 12. Jahrhunderts |
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| Keywords | so-called Ansbert; Frederick Barbarossa; Third Crusade; crusade narrative; historiography; crusade ideology; decision making |
| Description | The article deals with decision making and avoiding of decisions by Frederick Barbarossa on the Third Crusade, as depicted by the so-called Ansbert in his Historia de expeditione. The study shows that not only was Barbarossa's avoidance of decisions a useful strategy when dealing with local entities in the Byzantine Empire, but that it was also utilised skilfully by the so-called Ansbert to present the emperor as an ideal crusader fully devoted to recapturing Jerusalem. |
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