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Swan Knight Texts of the Old French Crusade Cycle
Inbunden, 2025
2904 kr
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The Swan Knight texts provide an imaginary tale of the ancestry of Godfrey of Bouillon, first ruler of Jerusalem in the kingdom of Outremer. They form the opening section of the Old French Crusade Cycle, leading up to the fictionalised account of the crusade in the Chanson d’Antioche, Chanson des …
Baybars’ Successors
Ibn al-Furāt on Qalāwūn and al-Ashraf
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text provides both an overview and a critique of earlier …
On Warfare and the Threefold Path of the Jerusalem Pilgrimage
A Translation of Ralph Niger’s De re militari et triplici via peregrinationis Ierosolimitane
Av John Cotts
Inbunden, 2022
2208 kr
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This volume will provide the first English translation of Ralph Niger’s critical reflection on military pilgrimage, written in the late 1180s in response to the calling of the Third Crusade. Long known to scholars as early and highly idiosyncratic critique of crusading, On Warfare and the Threefold …
Road to Antioch and Jerusalem
The Crusader Pilgrimage of the Monte Cassino Chronicle
Inbunden, 2023
2600 kr
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This is the first translation of the Hystoria de via or ‘Monte Cassino Chronicle,’ one of the few surviving crusader sources from Southern Italy, where it was probably compiled (partly from known sources) between the 1130s and 1140s. The chronicle’s original sections offer new and fresh insight on …
Latin Continuation of William of Tyre
Av James H. Kane, Keagan J. Brewer
Inbunden, 2024
2904 kr
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William of Tyre’s monumental twelfth-century history of the First Crusade and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem inspired a rich series of interrelated Old French continuations that proved very popular in the later Middle Ages. In contrast to the thriving literary afterlife that William’s work enjoyed …
Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades
Av Martin Hall, Jonathan Phillips
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical …
Chanson d'Antioche
An Old French Account of the First Crusade
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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The Old-French Chanson d'Antioche has long intrigued historians and literary scholars. Unusually among epic poems, it follows closely a well documented historical event - the First Crusade - and appears to include substantial and genuine historical content. At one time it was believed to be based …
Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross
Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis
Av Peter Lock
Häftad, 2020
731 kr
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This is the first full translation of Marino Sanudo Torsello's Secreta fidelium Crucis to be made into English. The work itself is a piece of crusading propaganda following the fall of Acre in 1291, written between 1300 and 1321, but it includes much of historical relevance along with interesting …
Ibn Naẓīf’s World-History
Al-Tā’rīkh al-Manṣūrī
Av David Cook
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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This book is the first translated and annotated edition of Ibn Naẓīf’s Al-Tā’rīkh al-Manṣūrī. Totalling 227 folios, the manuscript is a unique and valuable source full of historical accounts and anecdotes. The documents include two letters by the Emperor Frederick II in Arabic, as well as the only …
Ibn Naẓīf’s World-History
Al-Tā’rīkh al-Manṣūrī
Av David Cook
Häftad, 2022
816 kr
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This book is the first translated and annotated edition of Ibn Naẓīf’s Al-Tā’rīkh al-Manṣūrī. Totalling 227 folios, the manuscript is a unique and valuable source full of historical accounts and anecdotes. The documents include two letters by the Emperor Frederick II in Arabic, as well as the only …
Chronicle of Arnold of Lübeck
Av Graham Loud
Häftad, 2020
731 kr
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The chronicle of Arnold, Abbot of the monastery of St John of Lübeck, is one of the most important sources for the history of Germany in the central Middle Ages, and is also probably the major source for German involvement in the Crusades. The work was intended as a continuation of the earlier …
History of the Dukes of Normandy and the Kings of England by the Anonymous of Béthune
Av Paul Webster
Häftad, 2022
731 kr
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In the first quarter of the thirteenth century, an anonymous Flemish writer set in writing, in Old French, a chronicle of Normandy, England, Flanders and northern France. It ranged from the arrival of the Vikings in Normandy to the early years of the reign of King Henry III of England, ending with …
Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn
A critical edition and translation of the anonymous Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum
Häftad, 2020
731 kr
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The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (or Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn) is the most substantial contemporary Latin account of the conquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187. Seemingly written by a churchman who was in Jerusalem itself when …
Conquest of Santarém and Goswin’s Song of the Conquest of Alcácer do Sal
Editions and Translations of De expugnatione Scalabis and Gosuini de expugnatione Salaciae carmen
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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Achieved at the height of the Crusades, the Christian conquests of Santarém in 1147 by King Afonso I, and of Alcácer do Sal in 1217 by Portuguese forces and northern European warriors on their way by sea to Palestine, were crucial events in the creation of the independent kingdom of Portugal. The …
Conquest of Santarém and Goswin’s Song of the Conquest of Alcácer do Sal
Editions and Translations of De expugnatione Scalabis and Gosuini de expugnatione Salaciae carmen
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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Achieved at the height of the Crusades, the Christian conquests of Santarém in 1147 by King Afonso I, and of Alcácer do Sal in 1217 by Portuguese forces and northern European warriors on their way by sea to Palestine, were crucial events in the creation of the independent kingdom of Portugal. The …
Byzantine Sources for the Crusades, 1095-1204
Av Georgios Chatzelis, Jonathan Harris
Inbunden, 2024
2525 kr
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The Christian, Greek-speaking Byzantine empire was placed rather uneasily between western Christendom and the Islamic world during the Crusade era. Like all historical topics – particularly medieval – sources on the crusades give a variety of perspectives and accounts, but Byzantine writers provide …
Prester John: The Legend and its Sources
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which …
Guillaume de Machaut
The Capture of Alexandria
Av Janet Shirley, Peter W. Edbury
Inbunden, 2001
2904 kr
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Guillaume de Machaut, a man famous for both his poetry and his musical compositions, wrote his Prise d’Alexandrie (or Capture of Alexandria) just a few years after the death of his hero, King Peter I of Cyprus (1359-69). It is a verse history of Peter’s reign, and was Machaut’s last major literary …
Rare and Excellent History of Saladin or al-Nawadir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya by Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad
Inbunden, 2001
2680 kr
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Saladin is perhaps the one and only Muslim ruler who emerges with any clarity in standard tales and histories of the Crusades; this is a translation of Baha’ al-Din Ibn Shaddad’s account of his life and career. Ibn Shaddad (1144-1234) was clearly a great admirer of Saladin and was a close associate …
Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon
A Translation of the Medieval Catalan Llibre dels Fets
Av Damian J. Smith, Helena Buffery
Inbunden, 2003
2600 kr
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The 'Book of Deeds' is the first known autobiography by a Christian king. Its author was James I of Aragon (1213-76), known as 'The Conqueror', one of the great political figures of 13th-century Europe and a successful crusader. In his 'Deeds', James describes the turbulent years of his minority, …
Song of the Cathar Wars
A History of the Albigensian Crusade
Häftad, 2000
732 kr
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The Song of the Cathar Wars is the first translation into English of the Old Provençal Canso recounting the events of the years 1204-1218 in Southern France. In an effort to extirpate the Cathar heresy, Pope Innocent III launched what is now known as the Albigensian Crusade, but it was fiercely …
Robert the Monk's History of the First Crusade
Historia Iherosolimitana
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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This is the first English translation of Robert the Monk's Historia Iherosolimitana, a Latin prose chronicle describing the First Crusade. In addition to providing new and unique information on the Crusade (Robert claims to have been an eyewitness of the Council of Clermont in 1095), its particular …
Chronicle of the Third Crusade
The Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi
Häftad, 2001
732 kr
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This is a translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, a contemporary chronicle of the Third Crusade, 1187-1192. Told from the viewpoint of the European crusaders, it recounts the fall of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187 and the subsequent expeditions to …
Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418–1437
Sources and Documents for the Hussite Crusades
Inbunden, 2002
3168 kr
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This selection of over 200 texts, nearly all appearing for the first time in English translation, provides a close-up look at the crusades against the Hussite heretics of 15th-century Bohemia, from the perspective of the official Church - or at their struggles for religious freedom, from the …
Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross
Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis
Av Peter Lock
Inbunden, 2011
2600 kr
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This is the first full translation of Marino Sanudo Torsello's Secreta fidelium Crucis to be made into English. The work itself is a piece of crusading propaganda following the fall of Acre in 1291, written between 1300 and 1321, but it includes much of historical relevance along with interesting …
Old French Chronicle of Morea
An Account of Frankish Greece after the Fourth Crusade
Av Anne Van Arsdall, Helen Moody
Inbunden, 2015
4218 kr
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Numerous Byzantine and Western sources describing the events of the Fourth Crusade have now been translated into English. However, the same is not true for material on Frankish Greece, despite this region’s importance to late medieval crusading. The Chronicle of Morea is the key source for the …
Rare and Excellent History of Saladin or al-Nawadir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya by Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad
Häftad, 2002
738 kr
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Saladin is perhaps the one and only Muslim ruler who emerges with any clarity in standard tales and histories of the Crusades; this is a translation of Baha’ al-Din Ibn Shaddad’s account of his life and career. Ibn Shaddad (1144-1234) was clearly a great admirer of Saladin and was a close associate …
Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh. Part 1
The Years 491–541/1097–1146: The Coming of the Franks and the Muslim Response
Inbunden, 2006
3262 kr
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The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233AD), entitled 'al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh', is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author and, with the sources available to him, he attempted to embrace …
Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh. Part 2
The Years 541–589/1146–1193: The Age of Nur al-Din and Saladin
Inbunden, 2007
2600 kr
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The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233 AD), entitled "al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh", is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author and, with the sources available to him, he attempted to embrace …
Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187–1291
Inbunden, 2012
2525 kr
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This book presents new translations of a selection of Latin and French pilgrimage texts - and two in Greek - relating to Jerusalem and the Holy Land between the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187 and the loss of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291. It therefore complements and extends existing studies, …
