1st Edition
Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century The Rothelin Continuation of the History of William of Tyre with Part of the Eracles or Acre Text
Edited By Janet Shirley
Copyright 1999
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Old French ’Rothelin’ Continuation of William of Tyre’s Historia provides one of the best contemporary narratives of the history of the crusades and of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the mid-thirteenth century. Covering the period 1229-61, it has vivid accounts of the disastrous expeditions led by Count Theobald of Champagne (1239-40) and King Louis IX of France (1248-54) as well as of... Read more
Contents: Plan of Jerusalem; Map of the Holy Land; Map of Egypt and southern Palestine; Introduction: the continuations of William of Tyre; Manuscripts; Content of the Rothelin text; Content of the Eracles text; Reliability of the texts; Notes on the translation; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; The Rothelin Continuation; The Eracles or Acre Continuation; Index.
Biography
Janet Shirley
'The editors of this series and the translator deserve congratulations for making these continuations of the History of William of Tyre more accessible....' Church History, Vol. 69, No. 1 'This is a very welcome addition to a new series, Crusade Texts in Translation, whose editors are making a determined effort to commission translations of works which hitherto have languished in relative obscurity...The aim of this series is to provide good translations of texts, and the present volume certainly satisfies that requirement. Janet Shirley is a highly experienced translator, and in this volume her translation lives up to the very high standard set by her Song of the Cathar Wars in the same series...This is a very useful and stimulating text and its translation is important to sustaining the development of crusading studies.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 10, No. 1
