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Errata log

Volume 5 — John the Oxite, Speech 1

Source-faithful translation (Speech 1 to Emperor Alexios Komnenos) and lightened reader’s edition (John the Oxite — Speech 1): version 1.0.0, published 2026-08-01. No errata recorded.

Volume 4 — Gesta Francorum

Source-faithful translation (The Deeds of the Franks): version 1.0.0, published 2026-08-01. No errata recorded.

Volume 3 ? Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī, The Eastern Frontier, 961–996

Source-faithful translation: version 1.0.0, published 2026-07-31. No errata recorded.

Volume 2 — Yaḥyā al-Anṭākī on al-Ḥākim

Source-faithful translation (The Caliphate of al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, 996–1021): version 1.0.0, published 2026-07-22. No errata recorded.

Volume 1 — Peter Tudebode

Source-faithful translation (The Journey to Jerusalem): version 1.0.0, unchanged.

Reader's edition (The Road to Jerusalem) — 1.0.0 → 1.1.0, 2026-07-17. An editorial-voice revision. The chronicle's own text — its events, numbers, speeches, dates, and religious language — is unchanged; the corrections are to editorial matter written in the editor's voice (the afterword, the adaptation note, and a few narrative asides).

• Afterword, factual correction. A sentence in the afterword stated that Tudebode's God "burns a fortress of heretics with everyone inside it and receives the work as a mercy." The chronicle records the army's burning of a Pelagonia fortress (not a church) with its inhabitants, and offers no comment there; a doxology follows a different episode (the Vardar crossing). The God-as-agent and "mercy" framing have been removed. (The source-faithful translation never contained that phrasing and is unaffected.)
• Editorial voice. The afterword's closing and several editor's-voice asides were rephrased to report the chronicle without passing modern moral judgment on either side, and the afterword now states the war's cause from both sides in the chronicle's own words. No event, number, speech, or the chronicle's own wording was changed.

Reader's edition — 1.1.0 → 1.1.1, 2026-07-17. A prose clarification of the afterword and one Chapter 14 sentence. The Pelagonia fortress burning remains accurately narrated in Chapter 3; the afterword no longer compresses it into a clause that could be misread as a church massacre. The afterword's closing is split into shorter paragraphs; Kerbogha's grievance is correctly attributed to his camp speech (not an oath); both cause-quotations match the source-faithful translation; and Chapter 14 restores the source's "fifty or sixty" and a cleaner attribution ("as the chronicle puts it").

Reader's edition — 1.1.1 → 2.0.0, 2026-07-22. Major narrative refresh. The continuous story is now the Tudebode_v3 recast: a more direct participant voice, sixteen narrative chapters (re-split middle campaign), and a fuller Holy Places appendix. Product scaffolding from 1.1.1 is retained (adaptation note, Principal Figures, Lands of the Journey, afterword, end notes). No dialogue or events invented; medieval religious and military language is not sanitized. Source-faithful translation remains 1.0.0 (translation text unchanged; its editorial episode guide now follows the same sixteen-chapter map).