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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 book cover

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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

By Jonathan Wilson Copyright 2021
200 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 two texts presented here survive in their unique, thirteenth-century manuscript copies appended to a... Read more

General Introduction

Part I

De expugnatione Scalabis, Background and Analysis

De expugnatione Scalabis, Latin Text with English Translation

Part II

Gosuini de expugnatione Salaciae carmen, Background and Analysis

Gosuini de expugnatione Salaciae carmen, Latin Text with English Translation

Appendix I: Inscribed Text, Alc.415 fol. 145v

Appendix II: Maps

Biography

Jonathan Wilson (PhD, Liverpool) is a Researcher in the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM), Universidade Nova, Lisbon, and Research Fellow in the project Cistercian Horizons (IEM Nova, University of Évora, Catholic University of Portugal, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Monastery of Alcobaça) financed by Fundação de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal.

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