Features of the Author’s Description The First Crusade (based on the Chronicle of Gilo Parisiensis of the 12 th century)

The article is devoted to the study of the specifics of the author’s description of the First Crusade based on the material of the work of Gilon of Paris of the XII century, written in medieval Latin. The features of the presentation of events and the evaluative characteristics of the characters are considered. The purpose of the study is to identify and describe evaluative constructions that reflect, on the one hand, the originality of the author’s personal understanding of reality, on the other, the well–established ethical and aesthetic canons of Western European chivalry of the Crusade era. Based on the analysis, the specifics of the author’s narrative are described, in which the real modern world of the narrator is intertwined with elements of the fictional world of Antiquity.