ABSTRACT
In the prologue to the Historia Peregrinorum, its author wrote: “For if Dares of Phrygia is to be trusted more about the overthrow of Troy for the reason that the hearsay that others reported he saw, being present himself, equally with us relating the history of Jerusalem it ought be worthy of belief …” Later he returned to the same theme: “For if the ten-year war made Troy famous, [and] if the triumph of the Christians [on the First Crusade] made Antioch more illustrious, eternal fame will surely extol Acre, for which in like manner the whole world flowed together.” 2
