1st Edition
Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 perspective. Here is a very different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone. To see the... Read more
Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades
Biography
Jonathan Phillips is Professor of Crusading History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Martin Hall is an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
'This will be of interest to students and scholars of the Crusades, of Genoa, of Byzantine-Genoese relations, and the history of Mediterranean trade, warfare, and diplomacy in the pivotal twelfth century. ... this represents another fine and useful addition to Ashgate's series, "Crusade Texts in Translation."' Comitatus 'Highly recommended.' Choice 'The quality of the translations is uniformly outstanding as was the process of selecting which documents to translate from the great mass of surviving Genoese charters, treaties, and political documents.' Speculum
