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Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century - The Rothelin Continuation of the History of William of Tyre with Part of the Eracles or Acre Text (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century - The Rothelin Continuation of the History of William of Tyre with Part of the Eracles or Acre Text (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Crusade Texts in Translation
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The Old French 'Rothelin' Continuation of William of Tyre's
Historia provides one of the best contemporary narratives of the
history of the crusades and of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in
the mid-thirteenth century. Covering the period 1229-61, it has
vivid accounts of the disastrous expeditions led by Count Theobald
of Champagne (1239-40) and King Louis IX of France (1248-54) as
well as of other events in the East. But the text contains far more
than this, with a detailed description of Jerusalem itself, songs
of protest written by crusaders, and a variety of marvels and
adventures, including stories of Alexander the Great, and the
poisonous snakes encountered by the Roman army under Cato. This
text is here translated into English for the first time, together
with a narrative for the same years taken from another Old French
Continuation of William of Tyre's work, part of L'Estoire de
Eracles. Both accounts are translated from the Receuil des
historiens des croisades: Historiens occidentaux vol. 2 (Paris,
1859). An introduction and full notes make these thirteenth-century
events and ideas accessible to students of medieval history and to
anyone interested in the lives and patterns of thought of people of
that time.
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