Content area
Full Text
The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen: A History of the Normans on the First Crusade, trans. Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach, Crusade Texts in Translation 12 (Aldershot and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2005). xii + 183 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3710-7. £37.50. Ralph of Caen is not usually counted among the foremost historians of the crusading movement. This is because the Gesta Tancredi has suffered from the suspicion that Ralph's narrative was skewed by his desire to eulogize his patron, Tancred of Antioch, thus arguably making it unreliable as a historical account of past events....