Deus vult ("Allah mengkehendakinya")[1]
ragam Deus le volt, Dieux el volt; Deus id vult, Deus hoc vult, dll[2]) adalah sebuah motto Katolik yang diasosiasikan dengan Perang Salib, terutama Perang Salib Pertama 1096–1099. Peribahasa tersebut muncul dalam terjemahan Vulgata dari Alkitab Kristen.[3]
Referensi
^manuscripts of Gesta Francorum variously have Deus le volt, Deus lo vult, as well as the "corrected" forms Deus hoc vult and Deus vult. Winter (1890) cites Barth: "Barbaro-latina vulgi exclamatio vel et tessera est. Videri autem hinc potest, tum idiotismum Francicum propiorem adhuc fuisse latine matrici".
Winter (1890) comments that the presence of the Romance article (lo, le) was very likely part of the original motto as shouted in Amalfi, as both the author of Gesta Francorum and that of Historia Belli Sacri report it.
^Mrs. William Busk, Mediaeval Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Crusaders, Or, Germany, Italy, and Palestine, from A.D. 1125 to A.D. 1268, Volume 1 (1854), 15, 396.
^Jacobs, Henry Eyster; Schmauk, Theodore Emanuel (1888). The Lutheran Church Review, Volumes 7–8 (dalam bahasa English). Alumni Association of the Lutheran Theological Seminary. hlm. 266.Parameter |access-date= membutuhkan |url= (bantuan)Pemeliharaan CS1: Bahasa yang tidak diketahui (link)
B. Lacroix, "Deus le volt!: la théologie d'un cri", Études de civilisation médiévale (IXe-XIIe siècles). Mélanges offerts à Edmond-René Labande, Poitiers (1974), 461–470.
