Biddlecombe's weighty introduction to Baldric's text provides an excellent overview of the life and works of the author... [He] has sought to reveal the original work, thus favoring Medieval Latin spellings, avoiding unnecessary divisions, and taking care with punctuation. It is in every way a success.
MANUSCRIPTA
[T]his is scholarship of the highest order, and it should serve ... Read moreto place Baldric's chronicle at the forefront of future studies of the narrative transformation of the First Crusade from a desperate and bloody Near Eastern conflict to a touchstone of European cultural memory.
SPECULUM
With an introduction to the text nearly matching the length of the edition itself, Biddlecombe's edition also provides the current understanding of Baldric's biography, new information on the dating and dissemination of his text, and a fresh look at the ideas contained therein . . . . These attributes make Biddlecombe's text a welcomed contribution to the field.
COMITATUS
This new edition will be invaluable both to scholars of the First Crusade, of its reception, and of the development of the idea of crusade, as well as to students of medieval Latin literature.
CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW
Steven Biddlecombe has done historians of the crusades and of Latin literature a great service by providing the first critical edition of Baldric of Bourgueil's Historia Ierosolimitana.
H-FRANCE
[T]his new edition of Baldric is something to be celebrated. Biddlecombe has clearly met his goal, as stated his preface, of placing Baldric 'where he belongs, among the preeminent historians of the First Crusade.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
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