1st Edition

The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn A critical edition and translation of the anonymous Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum

By Keagan Brewer, James Kane Copyright 2019
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

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 the city was besieged and captured, the Libellus fuses historical narrative and biblical exegesis... Read more

List of illustrations



Preface



Abbreviations



Maps





Introduction



Structure



Historical background



Summary of text



Reliability and authorship of Part I



Style, language, and exegesis



The continuation (Parts II and III)



Manuscripts



Date



Notices, editions, and translations



Principles of edition and translation



Sigla used in this edition





Text and translation





Appendix 1—Ralph of Coggeshall’s Chronicon Anglicanum: Sources for 1187



Appendix 2—Gazetteer



Appendix 3—Biblical references





Bibliography





Index

Biography

Keagan Brewer and James H. Kane are both historians of the Crusades at the University of Sydney, Australia. Keagan Brewer is an Honorary Research Associate at the Medieval and Early Modern Centre and James H. Kane is a lecturer in medieval language and literature.