Alan V. Murray

The Franks in Outremer (eBook, ePUB)

Studies in the Latin Principalities of Palestine and Syria, 1099-1187

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together studies relating to the history of the Latin principalities established in Palestine and Syria from their foundation in the course of the First Crusade up to their 1187 defeat by Saladin. Half of the essays deal with the first three decades of the Frankish settlement. Beyond this are studies devoted to sacred and secular

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000947618
• Artikelnr.: 68081779

Autorenporträt

Dr Alan V. Murray is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies and Editorial Director, International Medieval Bibliography, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; The Frankish Nobility: The origins of the Frankish
nobility of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1100-1118; A note on the origin of
Eustace Grenier; A little-known member of the royal family of crusader
Jerusalem in William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum; Norman
settlement in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099-1131; The prosopography
and onomastics of the Franks in the kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099-1187; How
Norman was the principality of Antioch? Prolegomena to a study of the
origins of the nobility of a crusader state. Kingship in Frankish
Jerusalem: The title of Godfrey of Bouillon as ruler of Jerusalem; Daimbert
of Pisa, the Domus Godefridi and the accession of Baldwin I of Jerusalem;
Dynastic continuity or dynastic change? The accession of Baldwin II and the
nobility of the kingdom of Jerusalem; Baldwin II and his nobles: baronial
factionalism and dissent in the kingdom of Jerusalem, 1118-1134; Kingship,
identity and name-giving in the family of Baldwin of Bourcq. Sacred Space
and the Defence of the Holy Land: Sacred space and strategic geography in
12th-century Palestine; Constructing Jerusalem as a Christian capital:
topography and population of the Holy City under Frankish rule in the 12th
century; The origin of money-fiefs in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem;
'Mighty against the enemies of Christ': the relic of the True Cross in the
armies of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Ideologies of Confrontation: Franks,
Native Christians and Muslims: Ethnic identity in the crusader states: the
Frankish race and the settlement of Outremer; Coroscane: homeland of the
Saracens in the Chansons de Geste and the historiography of the crusades;
William of Tyre and the origin of the Turks: observations on possible
sources of the Gesta orientalium principum; Biblical quotations and
formulaic language in the Chronicle of William of Tyre; Franks and
indigenous communities in Palestine and Syria (1099-1187): a hierarchical
model of social interaction in the principalitie