Susan B. Edgington, Helen J. Nicholson

Deeds Done Beyond the Sea (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders presented to Peter Edbury

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume celebrates Peter Edbury's career by bringing together essays focusing on his major research interests: the great historian of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, William of Tyre, and his chronicle; medieval Cyprus; and the Military Orders in the Middle Ages. All based on original research, contributions include new work on manuscripts from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries; studies of language in William of Tyre; thematic surveys; legal and commercial investigations pertaining to Cyprus; aspects of memorialization, and biographical studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317153665
• Artikelnr.: 45096645

Autorenporträt

Susan B. Edgington is a Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK; Helen Nicholson is Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I William of Tyre; Chapter 1 Some New Light on the Composition Process
of William of Tyre's Historia, Benjamin Z.Kedar; Chapter 2 William of
Tyre's Attitude towards Islam, NicholasMorton; Chapter 3 Biblical
Quotations and Formulaic Language in the Chronicle of William of Tyre, Alan
V.Murray; Chapter 4 William of Tyre and the First Rulers of the Latin
Principality of Antioch, ThomasAsbridge; Chapter 5 Differing Views of
Renaud de Châtillon, Philip D.Handyside; Chapter 6 Re-translating William
of Tyre, Helen J.Nicholson; Chapter 7 Saladin, from Memory towards Myth in
the Continuations, JohnFrance; Chapter 8 Holy War and Kingship in
Fifteenth-century Hungary, NormanHousley; Part II Cyprus; Chapter 9 Cypriot
Gold Thread in Late Medieval Silk Weaving and Embroidery, DavidJacoby;
Chapter 10 A New Manuscript of Leontios Makhairas's Chronicle of the 'Sweet
Land of Cyprus', AngelNicolaou-Konnari; Chapter 11 Animals and the Law,
NicholasCoureas; Chapter 12 Amanieu Son of Bernard, Count of Astarac,
Croisé Manqué? Deconstructing the Myth of an Eighteenth-century Crusader,
MichalisOlympios; Chapter 13 Queen Plaisance of Cyprus and the Bulla
Cypria, ChrisSchabel; Part III The Military Orders; Chapter 14 Gregory VII
and the Idea of a Military-Religious Order, Paul F.Crawford; Chapter 15 A
Rental of Hospitaller Properties in Twelfth-century Jerusalem,
DenysPringle; Chapter 16 Afonso of Portugal, Master of the Hospital:
1202/3-1206, AnthonyLuttrell; Chapter 17 The Identity of the Order of St
John of Jerusalem in Portugal, Paula PintoCosta; Part IV Afterword; Chapter
18 Peter Edbury as an Historian, ChristopherTyerman;