Author: Carol Sweetenham
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: crusade, texts, translation, iherosolimitana, historia, robert, history, first, monk
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0754658627
ISBN-13: 9780754658627
This is the first English translation of "Robert the Monk’s Historia Iherosolimitana", a Latin prose chronicle describing the First Crusade. In addition to providing new and unique information on the Crusade (Robert claims to have been an eyewitness of the Council of Clermont in 1095), its particular interest lies in the great popularity it enjoyed in the Middle Ages. The text has close links with the vernacular literary tradition and is written in a racy style which would not disgrace a modern tabloid journalist. Its reflection of contemporary legends and anecdotes gives us insights int
Author: Colin Imber
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: crusade, translation, varna, texts
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2006-07
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0754601447
ISBN-13: 9780754601449
The Crusade of Varna of 1443-45 was one of the decisive events of the late Middle Ages. Following the temporary Union of the Greek and Latin Churches in 1439, Pope Eugenius IV created an alliance which aimed to ’liberate’ Byzantium and the Balkan Peninsula from the domination of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Sultan, Murad II, held the Crusaders during the winter war of 1443, finally securing victory at Varna in November, 1444. The Crusade petered out in 1445 with the expedition of the Burgundian fleet on the Danube. More than any other single event, it was Murad’s victory a
Author: G. A. Loud
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: crusade, translation, texts, barbarossa, frederick
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2010-06-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754665755
ISBN-13: 9780754665755
This is the first English translation of the main contemporary accounts of the Crusade and death of the German Frederick I Barbarossa (ruled 1152-90). The most important of these, the "History of the Expedition of the Emperor Frederick" was written soon after the events described, and is a crucial, and under-used source for the Third Crusade (at least in the Anglophone world). The account begins with two letters describing the disaster of Hattin and Saladin’s subsequent conquest of most of the Holy Land (the second of these is addressed to the duke of Austria). It goes on to describe how
Author: of Reims Robert
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Keywords: crusade, iherosolimitana, texts, translation, historia, robert, history, first, monk
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 2005-01-31
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754604713
ISBN-13: 9780754604716
This is the first English translation of "Robert the Monk’s Historia Iherosolimitana", a Latin prose chronicle describing the First Crusade. In addition to providing new and unique information on the Crusade (Robert claims to have been an eyewitness of the Council of Clermont in 1095), its particular interest lies in the great popularity it enjoyed in the Middle Ages. The text has close links with the vernacular literary tradition and is written in a racy style which would not disgrace a modern tabloid journalist. Its reflection of contemporary legends and anecdotes gives us insights int
Authors:Bernard S. Bachrach, RAOUL, David S. Bachrach,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: crusade, first, texts, translation, normans, history, tancredi, ralph, caen, gesta
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 2005-08
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754637107
ISBN-13: 9780754637103
This is the first translation into English of "Ralph of Caen’s Gesta Tancredi". This text provides an exceptionally important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096 - 1105, but is often neglected, due in no small part to the difficulties of its Latin. A native of the Norman city of Caen where he was a student of Arnulf, the future patriarch of Jerusalem, in 1107 Ralph joined Bohemond of Taranto’s army as a military chaplain. After arriving in the East, Ralph took service with Bohemond’s nephew Tancred, who ruled the principally of
Author: Steven Runciman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: crusade, first
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-12-13
List price: $20.99
ISBN-10: 0521611482
ISBN-13: 9780521611480
When Pope Urban II rose to his feet to address the multitudes gathered before him at the Council of Clermont in 1095, his appeal was simple: let Western Christendom march to the aid of their brethren in the East. Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most idealistic of Christian expeditions or the last of the barbarian invasions, they remain one of the most exciting adventure stories in history. Steven Runicman’s History of the Crusades has been acclaimed as a fascinating account of the historic journey to save the Holy Land from the infidel. This abridgment makes accessible to broa
Author: Elizabeth Laird
Publisher: Macmillan UK
Keywords: crusade
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-11-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0330456997
ISBN-13: 9780330456999
Two boys, two faiths, one unholy wartwo boys from opposing worlds come face to face in a thought-provoking historical adventure When Adam’s mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Employed as a dog-boy for the local knight, Adam grabs the chance to join the Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. He burns with determination to strike down the infidel enemy. Salim, a merchant’s son, is leading an uneventful life in the port of Acreuntil news arrives that a Crusader attack is imminent. To keep Salim safe, his father buys him an apprenticeship with an es
