Relaţiile dintre Alexios I Comnenul şi conducătorii primei cruciade
Relations between Alexios I Comnenus and the First Crusade leaders

Summary/Abstract: The first four crusades represent an important period for establishing the context in which the two Christian worlds, West and East, will interact in the following centuries, as a first response of Christianity to the Muslims conquests initiated as early as the seventh century. Within the diplomatic exchanges between the Greeks and the Westerns during the holly wars, the imperial ceremony constituted a full exercise of the Byzantine ideology and a mark of the cultural diversity existing between the crusaders and the eastern, as well as way of legitimating and expression of claims towards the foreign nations. The first holly expedition, preached by pope Urban the 2nd for the re-conquest of the Holly Land, led to the intensification of contacts and of diplomatic exchanges between the two Christian blocks. This study intends to analyze the relations between Alexios the 1st Komnenos and the westerns leaders in the context of the interaction between Latins and Byzantines generated by the First Crusade.

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