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Thietmar, Book of Pilgrimage 8.38-46

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Context

Thietmar was a German Christian, perhaps a learned cleric from Westphalia, who undertook two pilgrimages from Acre during the course of the Fifth Crusade, one eastward to the Monastery of Mary at Saydnaya in southwestern Syria in 1217 and one southward to the Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai in 1218. This work survives in 18 manuscripts of different lengths and dates; we prefer the earlier, fuller version at Hamburg on the authority of Laurent and Pringle. Thietmar gives a detailed itinerary of the Holy Land as well as his sojourn to Damascus, including much detail about the experience of contemporary Europeans and the local inhabitants, alongside usual observations concerning the historical landscape. In this passage, he describes Caesarea on his journey south from Acre to Sinai.

Text

(38) Item a monte Carmelo perveni Cesaream, (39) et transivi per fluvium, qui flui de Carmelo, in quo multi sunt cocodrilli. (40) Ista Cesarea est Palestina, que quondam dicta est Dor, et non Philippi, de qua supra dictum est. (41) Hic quondam fuit Turris Stratonis. (42) Hanc civitatem ad honorem Augusti Cesaris Herodes, rex Judee, Cesaream appellavit, (43) ubi incipit regio Palestina. (44) In hac civitate vidi ecclesiam sancti Petri, edificatam de domo Cornelii centurionis, quem sanctus Petrus convertit et baptizavit, et edes Philippi et cubicula quatuor virginum prophetissarum. 1

Textual Note

Ed. Laurent 1873

Textual Note

Codex Hamburgensis 143b

Translation

(38) From Mount Carmel I came to Caesarea, (39) and I crossed over a river that flows from Carmel in which there are many crocodiles. (40) That Caesarea is Caesarea Palaestina, which was formerly called Dor, and not Caesarea Philippi, about which I have spoken above. (41) Here once was Strato’s Tower. (42) Herod, King of Judaea, called this city Caesarea in honor of Caesar Augustus. (43) There begins the region of Palestine. (44) In this city I saw the Church of St. Peter, built from the house of the centurion Cornelius, whom Peter converted and baptized, and the house of Philip and the chamber of the four virgin prophetesses. 2

Translation Note

Rev. from Pringle 2012

Works Cited

  • 1 ch: 8, 38-46. , ch: 8, 38-46.
  • 2 Thietmar, Thietmar: Pilgrimage (1217-18), in Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187-1291, trans. Denys Pringle, Crusade Texts in Translation 23 (London: Routledge, 2018), 95–133, p: 109, section: 8.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
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Joseph L. Rife, “Thietmar, Book of Pilgrimage 8.38-46,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/268.

Bibliography:

Joseph L. Rife, “Thietmar, Book of Pilgrimage 8.38-46.” In Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, edited by Joseph L. Rife., edited by Joseph L. Rife. Caesarea City and Port Exploration Project, 2023. Entry published June 30, 2023. https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/268.

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Entry Title: Thietmar, Book of Pilgrimage 8.38-46

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