The Siège d’Antioche takes its audience through the events of the First Crusade leading up to and including the Siege of Antioch. Within its verses the reader will explore the world of the poem and travel from Western Europe, through Byzantium, and into the Middle East as the poet understood it. While some of the names and places may be familiar to modern readers, their borders were not what they are today, and they did not function as modern nation states do. It is also important to remember that the contemporary reader’s understanding of many of these places was filtered through the stories from the Christian Bible and similar legends. Other locations are seemingly fictional, or at least unknown to modern scholars. For a more in-depth discussion of this subject, see the Maps page.
To help readers orient themselves within this landscape, the Fordham team continues to organize a glossary of important places that appear within the Siège d’Antioche.
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Places in the Text