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When there was not yet order, nor any Rule\u2026

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Not all stories begin in order.
This small handwritten manuscript, written at the beginning of the 18th century, looks back on the First Crusade \u2014
a time in which many set out, burning with faith, yet without unity, without leadership.
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On these pages we do not read a tale of heroes, but what came before: confusion, division, and the absence of structure.
Page by page, an image unfolds here of a world still searching \u2014 for direction, for authority\u2026 for order. <\/p>

What you see here is not a typical explanatory page. Before you lies a French manuscript from the year 1705, in which an unknown author \u2014 we believe a monk \u2014 reflects on the early developments leading up to the First Crusade. A small manuscript \u2014 with a great story.
On this page, the text is revealed step by step. <\/p>

Per page you will find:
\u2013 on the left: a transcription of the original Old French text
\u2013 on the right: a translation into clear, accessible English
\u2013 below: a brief interpretation and explanation<\/p>

The complete text is not presented all at once, but unfolds in sections of five pages.
Between these sections, markers in time indicate how the story develops.
The manuscript consists of a total of 126 pages.
The full text is not published at once, but grows over time \u2014 page by page. <\/p>

Each Friday, we continue along the path of the First Crusade \u2014
with Godfrey of Bouillon, with Peter the Hermit,
we hear Pope Urban II, we travel to Constantinople, to Emperor Alexius\u2026
and so on \u2014 step by step \u2014 towards the goal.
The story will continue to unfold for those who return.<\/p>

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Author\u2019s note: a brief summary of the history of the Holy War.
This is the beginning of the Crusade: how Godfrey of Bouillon took Jerusalem and was proclaimed king \u2014 yet refused the title.
On July 15, in the year of Our Lord 1099, on a Friday, at the very hour that Christ gave up His spirit.
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L\u2019origine des Turcs les Turcs \u00e9toient une nations qui habitoit ci devant
dans une isle, qui se nomoit
Sarmadia Assiatica. Est de l\u00e0 ils se sont retirez dans un endroit qui se nome la Mar\u00e9e Caspium, o\u00f9 cette
endroit porte encore le Nom aujourd\u2019huy Turquestan, l\u00e0 ces peuples s\u2019entretenoient seulement de ce qu\u2019ils y eslioient. Sur tout quand ils se fesoit quelque desordre
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The Turks were a people who once lived on an island,
called Sarmadia Asiatica.
From there, they withdrew
to a region near what is called the Caspian Sea,
where that land still bears the name Turkestan.
There, these people concerned themselves only
with what they cultivated and produced.*
Especially when unrest arose
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\u2026dans les Royaumes voisins
Ils prenoient le parti de servir en qualit\u00e9 de Soldats. Ils s\u2019entretenoient seulement
du pillage qu\u2019ils rapportoient dans leur territoire. Dans le tems de l\u2019Empereur Otto 3. ce peuple ont est\u00e9 pris \u00e0 la solde par Mahomel, qui \u00e9toit Sultan Sarasin dans la Perse, dont l\u2019on \u00e9toit en guerre contre les Babyl- loniens, qui les appella
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\u2026in the neighbouring kingdoms, they chose to serve as soldiers. They lived solely from the plunder which they carried back to their own territory. In the time of Emperor Otto III,
this people was taken into service by Mahomel (Mahomet \/ Mohammed),
who was a Sultan and Saracen in Persia, where war was being waged against the Babylonians, who had called upon them for aid.
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\u201cMahomel\u201d \u2192 likely a French form of Mahomet, meaning Mohammed.
It may also refer to a later Islamic ruler; the context develops further on.
Otto III reigned from 983\u20131002 \u2192 thus before the Crusades. The author appears to describe an early origin of Turkish soldiers in Persian service.
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