1st Edition

The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre

Edited By James H. Kane, Keagan J. Brewer Copyright 2025
362 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

362 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

362 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

William of Tyre’s monumental twelfth-century history of the First Crusade and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem inspired a rich series of interrelated Old French continuations that proved very popular in the later Middle Ages. In contrast to the thriving literary afterlife that William’s work enjoyed in the vernacular, however, only one continuation of the text is known to have survived in Latin,... Read more

Introduction

The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre

Text

Translation

Appendix 1: Translation of BW’s addition to William of Tyre, Historia, 23.1

Appendix 2: Translation of Cathalogi quorundam magnatum

List of biblical citations

Bibliography

Index

Biography

James H. Kane is Lecturer in Medieval History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He teaches across the history of the premodern world, with a particular focus on the crusades and medieval religion, and his research centres around the ideology, terminology, and historiography of the crusading movement. His publications include The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, edited and translated with Keagan Brewer (2019), and Crusade, Settlement and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, c. 1100–c. 1300, edited with Andrew Buck and Stephen Spencer (2024).

Keagan J. Brewer, FRHistS, is Research Fellow at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). His current research considers the place of atheism and unbelief in medieval European culture. He has previously written on the legend of Prester John, the emotion of wonder, and other aspects of Western European religion and culture in the Middle Ages. He enjoys editing and translating medieval texts. The current work is his third contribution to the Crusade Texts in Translation series.