Talk:Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay

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Peter's Death

The article suggests that Peter met his death shortly after giving up the writing of the unfinished Historia albigensium shortly after December 1218, which theory is in some degree accepted by many modern historians. However, Nicole Morgan Schulman discussing the three main sources of Albigensian Crusade (that is: Vaux-de-Cernay, Chanson de la croisade and William of Puylaurens's Chronica) have proposed that following Simon of Montfort's death Peter would lose his interest concerning the project of Crusade and eventually abandoned it (Schulman, From Lover to Villain, from Sinner to Saint: The Varied Career of Folco, Troubadour, Monk, and Bishop of Toulouse, National Library of Canada, Ottawa 1998, p. 24, n. 40). She also notes that Peter's "adoration for Simon is evident throughout his narrative" (Schulman, op. cit., p. 27, n. 53) and that "he possessed a youthful hero-worship of Simon, and it seems to have been this fervour that led him to record the events that were unfurling" (p. 27); concluding that after Simon's death behind Toulouse Peter's account was wrapped up in about a page (ibid.).

I have actually read similar proposition just for the first time whence I fancy that it might be rather valuable to include some of Schulman's conclusions in the article. I hesitate to do this by myself though.