1st Edition
Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis
Edited By Peter Lock
Copyright 2011
486 Pages
by
Routledge
486 Pages
by
Routledge
486 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 observations on the early history of Jerusalem and the Crusader Kingdom. The translation is based upon... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross, that is both for the preservation of the faithful and for the conversion and destruction of the infidel: also for the recovery and retention of the Holy Land and many other lands in a sound, peaceful and quiet state. Book 1,The Disposition and Preparation for the Recovery of the Holy Land. Book 2, The Ways and Means by which the Holy Land can be Recovered. Book 3, Keeping, Holding and Possessing the Holy Land of Promise. Index.
Biography
Peter Lock was Professor of Medieval History, now retired, at York St John University, UK
'Lock should be praised for a highly efficient and sober English version of such an important text for scholars of literary culture, Venice, western relations with Byzantium, Mediterranean commerce and history, cartography and the crusades.' English Historical Review
