The Image of Miracles in the Composition of the First Crusade “Conquête de Jérusalem”

The research is devoted to the study of the features of the depiction of miracles based on the material of the old French work of the XIII century “Conquête de Jérusalem.” The purpose of the study is to identify and study the specifics of the manifestations of the miraculous (the participation of saints in battle, the appearance of mystical signs, miraculous events) and the means of their verbalization in the text. The work establishes the degree of compliance of the author’s ideas about the miraculous with the aesthetic and ethical norms of the Crusade era, as well as the genre canons of the Middle Ages (the genre of chronicles and gestures). The paper also discusses ways to implement the assessment of the miraculous by the knights participating in the campaign. All the
means used by the author realize the pragmatic purpose of the work – to convince the reader of the truth of the events described and the just outcome of the crusade.