Francesca Petrizzo is currently lecturer in medieval history at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on practitioners of violence and their uses of the past to legitimize themselves between the central Middle Ages and medievalism in later ages.

Introduction. The Road to Antioch and Jerusalem.

This is the first translation of the Hystoria de via or 'Monte Cassino Chronicle,' one of the few surviving crusader sources from Southern Italy, where it was probably compiled (partly from known sources) between the 1130s and 1140s.